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Dartmouth basketball has reached a state of unprecedented futility. During the last three years the Green managed to lost a total of 55 games; so far this year the Indians have gotten through the easy part of their schedule without a win, and may keep their record unblemished all season...
...Granted hats make news-but shouldn't your Dec. 13 World and People sections have gotten together? Or don't Pepsi-Cola and Vodka...
Next morning over breakfast in Imperial Beach, John told his story. "He seemed on the verge of collapse," recalls James. "He said he had gotten himself involved in the Sinatra kidnaping. He told me some of the ransom money was in the car." Within half an hour the two brothers decided what they would do. With John listening on an extension phone, James called the FBI in San Diego and told them the story. Agents arrived quickly, arrested John, and recovered $47,938 from a valise in the station wagon outside...
...political power, supported Robert F. Wagner for re-election, thus treating the city to the spectacle of an incumbent Mayor running on a platform of "throw the rascals out." This listless coalition of reformism, and the more palatable elements of the machine hasn't really worked; the reformers have gotten less than the half a loaf they hoped...
...husbands react to this new restlessness? Fewer and fewer seem to be grousing about the idea of a tired businessman coming home to a tired businesswoman. "In only one or two cases," says Anne Cronin, "have husbands gotten stuffy about their wives' going back into careers. For the most part, they're serious and understanding. We're not breaking up any homes that wouldn't break up anyway...