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Down the back stretch, Needles was still lost in the pack while Fabius, a speed horse, was opening a great gap on the fast track. The chalk players could barely see through their tears. But Jockey Erb did not get flustered. His mount was moving nicely and he saved ground, waited until they reached the stretch turn before he asked the big question. Then, for a terrible second, Needles seemed to spit the bit out once more. Erb cracked the whip in his ear to get his mind on his work. Needles got the idea...
Donald H. Menzel, Director of the College Observatory, said Bok's resignation "leaves a serious gap in the Harvard Observatory staff and in the Department of Astronomy...
...Union, healthier commercial intercourse between East and West will lead to a less tense and precipitous atmosphere. Rehabilitated US-USSR trade would also allow other non-Soviet nations to relax their trade relations with the Soviet bloc, and could provide them with new markets free of the prohibitive dollar-gap difficulty...
...finding that no matter how fast it runs it cannot catch up with increasing consumer demand. Last week American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which set an industrial record for yearly spending with the $1.6 billion put into expansion in 1955, announced that it was still unable to close the gap. This year, said A. T. & T. President Cleo F. Craig, the world's biggest utility will spend a staggering $2.1 billion merely to keep from falling farther behind. With 47 million phones already in service, orders for another 3,000,000 are expected and every Bell subsidiary is snowed under...
...that period as the Engineers rallied. The Crimson pulled ahead by adding one more goal before the half. In the third and fourth periods, the Yardlings scored four goals to wrap up the game although the four-goal performance of M.I.T.'s Frank Wise-buck closed the gap by the final period...