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...Bradley, disappointment was no stranger. The Braves reached the final of both the National Collegiate and National Invitation tournaments in 1950, only to lose in both to C.C.N.Y.'s "Cinderella Team." Later, as it turned out, both teams were dishonored by the fix scandals. Last season, after a Bradley Boosters Club had been too free with its money favors to Bradley players, the Braves were suspended from tournament play by the N.C.A.A. La Salle, on the other hand, won college basketball's top trophy the very first time it had ever qualified for the tournament...
Money from Home (Hal Wallis; Paramount), in which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to fix a horse race, is pretty funny for a minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn...
...Rodeoing," says Linderman, "is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand...
...admission, I.C.I, now controls almost 100% of British alkali production, has a monopoly in nylon polymer and Nitro-Chalk, produces 60% of all British dyestuffs, and 90% of its chlorine. The critics argue that I.C.I, is too big to be good, can produce or not produce at will, fix prices arbitrarily, that high profits and managerial hardening of the arteries will eventually slow down research and the development of vital new products...
...midst of all the international frothing and fuming, Latin Americans completely neglected to call attention to the best proof of their claim that coffee is simply moving on the age-old tides of supply and demand. The fact is that Latin-American coffee drinkers are in much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President...