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Dartmouth received an excellent team effort, but it was double victories by diver Mike Brown and two great sophomores-Jim Gottschalk and Chris Cartensen-the proved fatal. Harvard had hoped that its best diver, Dave Silver could take first in one of the two dives, but Brown was not to be beaten...
...series of enterprises: a bakery, a chain of shops, even handling a contract to make sacks for the Canadian government in World War I. The family moved to Chicago near Division Street, where, Bellow says, "he did all right in coal until one of his uninsured trucks had a fatal accident. For years we all worked...
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Then came Scanlon's fatal loss at 190. Scanlon was pinned after only one minute of the first period by Mat Rudolph, who was as surprised as Scanlon by the quick fall in the third period of his heavyweight match for the Dutchmen since being discharged by the Army...
Counting their battle dead, their captured, victims of fatal disease and the 140,400 who have deserted to the Saigon cause, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces have probably been drained of about 1,640,400 men during the war. Applying such a loss to the U.S. population base (there are 21 million people in North Viet Nam, plus over 100,000 Viet Cong, v. 200 million in the U.S.), that would be the equivalent of about 15,500,000 Americans lost. And this does not even count the Vietnamese who have died in the U.S. bombings...