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...Columbia collapse is difficult to explain, but the most likely reason is that the team has thus far failed to work itself into shape. Harvard Coach Bob Pickett said yesterday the Lions are "ready to explode," especially if they've finally gotten in some kind of condition...
...week's end the pressure had gotten too much for Mansfield, who announced that he would ask for a vote this week on a cloture petition to shut off the filibuster. That was fine with Dirksen. With all but six of his 32 Republican colleagues firmly behind him, and strong support from Southern Democrats, he was confident of getting the 34 votes needed to defeat cloture. For Mansfield to win, said Dirksen, "it would take nothing short of a miracle-or an earth convulsion...
...movie springs fitfully to life when Ford and his greedy partner, Ricardo Montalban, go to investigate a shooting at the home of Dr. Joseph Gotten. Gunned down by the shady doctor, a dying thief tells them that he was trying to lift $500,000 stashed in a wall safe. The cops persuade themselves that ill-gotten gains might as well line the pockets of two hard-working law officers, and conspire to do some Cotten-pickin' after hours. Their moonlighting ends in a mock-Shakespearean finale. While Montalban overacts outrageously, Ford fires bullets along with a somewhat more lethal...
...California boards occasionally send their notices by surface mail. Beecher explains. "In several cases, the boys who have not informed their boards of a change in address have gotten them after the ten days allowed for appeal. This was the boy's responsibility under...
Swenson's chances of getting early course enrollment figures have gotten worse since the Fall. Registrar Robert Shenton, who took over the post in September, has told the Coop he will now release no figures until the end of each term, and then only by request. The release of the current enrollment in any course is within the discretion of the professor teaching it. Shenton argues, and should not be made by the Registrar...