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Right after the second half began, Sacks scored eight straight points to close the gap to 30-28, but then Sheehy tallied nine in a row to put the game beyond the Crimson's reach...
...vastness of the gap between the envisioned tomorrow, and the actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains...
Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy pointed out that Japan is importing about $200 million a year more than it exports, and the dollar gap is widening steadily as U.S. troops are withdrawn from the country. To make up for the decline, said Murphy, Japanese exports to the U.S. must rise...
Despite its number of informal madrigal groups, the University has rarely boasted a permanent ensemble devoted to chamber-size choral music. But from casual origins several years ago, the Bach Society Chorus of the Music Club has gradually come to fill this gap...
Slick Airways, largest U.S. air-freight line, has been in trouble ever since the end of the Korean war cut military freight orders and new civilian business failed to fill the gap (TIME, Oct. 4). Last week two optimistic outsiders who thought they could cure Slick's ailments took over the airline's management. In as new board chairman and top manager went Delos Wilson Rentzel, 45, a former CAA administrator, CAB chairman and Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, who is now president of two Oklahoma City truck lines. In as director and executive committee member went...