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...first loss to Cornell wasn't so bad, at the time anyway. The squad played a tough game all the way and didn't fold after falling behind. A goalie named Dave Elenbaas coupled with a lot of bad breaks for the Crimson told the story. Harvard was still number...
...through the course of the meet I kept waiting for an Elis rally which never came. Yale had out-psyched and out-swum everybody for so long that it took me until after the meet was over to realize that Harvard had refused to fold, and had, if anything, out-psyched Yale. The Elis, after two tough wins against Dartmouth and Princeton, may have been due for a letdown, and while Harvard swam its best times in every single race, Yale had trouble matching its times of a week...
...their old brand names. To win them over, the company held a series of conventions. "It was a risky situation because we didn't want them to switch to some other company," explains an Exxon executive. In the end, Exxon reports, not a single dealer left the corporate fold because of the name change. Confusion inside the Exxon board room was so great that at one point directors who let slip the name of an old brand like Enco or Humble had to pay a 25? fine into small tiger-shaped banks...
...Women's Wear Daily's biweekly supplement, offers "Juicy People." W solemnly reports two ways that JPs can be recognized: "Watch a JP cut into a steak. He always makes the first cut right in the center. Get to the pleasure fast." And: "Ask your lover to fold his hands. If the left thumb overlaps the right one, he's a JP...He thinks with his heart. If the right thumb overlaps the left, he thinks with his mind. No juice." That may be great for recognizing male JPs, but inexplicably W has so far failed...
...Boston Red Sox announced Friday the signing of third baseman Rico Petrocelli and outfielder Tommy Harper bringing to 30 the number in the fold for the 1973 American League baseball season. Both received pay increases...