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...downstairs to watch the swimming meet characterized the entire first half, except for a brief Crimson spurt toward the end. Trailing 24-22 with five minutes to go, the varsity began to utilize a good fast break and pulled ahead, 30 to 25. But the Bruins quickly closed the gap, and went off at halftime on the short end of a 32-31 score...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Brown Quintet Defeats Crimson After Trailing During First Half | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Mullin won the mile and two-mile events. Knapp took thirds in both distances, and in the two-mile relay he caught Princeton's anchor man at the wire after closing a 15-yard gap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Loses to Yale In Big Three Triangulars | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...chamber's Walter Fackler differed sharply with labor leader Walter Reuther who said the Communists rapidly are closing the economic gap and that this poses a serious threat for the future...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Takes Leave of Absence To Have Operation, Recuperate; Reuther Asserts Russia Gaining | 2/10/1959 | See Source »

Reuther Claims Russia Closing Gap...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Takes Leave of Absence To Have Operation, Recuperate; Reuther Asserts Russia Gaining | 2/10/1959 | See Source »

...gap between a totalitarian state and a "Titotalitarian" one is so narrow that even a writ of habeas corpus cannot pass through it, but the Tito version may be more tempting to the satirist. In this book Anglo-Irish Novelist Lawrence Durrell, who once served with the British embassy in Belgrade, leaves his steamy Mideastern cabals (Balthazar, Justine) for airy Balkan spoofs. The eleven grotesque tales in Esprit de Corps (subtitled Sketches from Diplomatic Life) do not all come off, but the best of them extract a flavorsome slivovitz from the Titoesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slivovitz | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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