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...Charles. Barbie Grand, with crew Beth Goddard, turned in the best performance of the fall in A-division. With six firsts and three seconds in her twelve races, Grant easily topped her division. In B-division Janice Stroud, with crew-mate Kathy Angell, outsailed her opponents but suffered two foul-outs, costing the team 13 points. The second foul was controversial; Stroud had finished her eighth race in second place, just ahead of MIT. The Techies subsequently protested for a rule infraction. The race committee ruled in favor of the protest despite MIT's improper procedure...
...referees either didn't see these occurrences, or if they did, agreed with Harvard's arguments, as no personal foul was called...
...relayed by an FBI agent in Denver to a CIA employee in 1969. The case involved the disappearance of a Czech-born University of Colorado professor named Thomas Riha. The FBI had refused to give the president of the university any assurance that the disappearance did not involve foul play, but an FBI agent, acting on his own, told a CIA employee that it did not. The CIA man passed on the message -no foul play-to the president, who then let it slip to the press. Hoover was furious. Because of that fairly obscure incident, he has limited most...
...wall to cinch a 2-1 Pittsburgh victory. Lest it seem like luck, Hebner then helped the Pirates mop up the Giants 9-5 in the final game with a three-run homer. He also provided a vital ninth-inning out by leaping into the stands to snatch a foul ball away from a covey of overeager hometown fans. San Francisco left with the dubious distinction of being the first losing team in three years of playoffs to win so much as a single game...
Canton's Tung Fang (East Wind) Hotel, however, stands in unhappy contrast. Wall Street Journal Reporter Robert Keatley found it "dark and dingy . . . perhaps China's worst," and Timesman Tillman Durdin recalls "the foul, surly service we got in Canton, perhaps because the hotel was overtaxed then by trade-fair visitors...