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...another, and Michigan State downed No. 9-ranked Northwestern, 15-7. North Carolina State beat Duke for the first time since 1946, 21-7, and Stanford clobbered Notre Dame, 24-14, for the first time ever. At Cambridge, Mass., Harvard broke Dartmouth's 15-game winning streak, longest in major college football...
...triumph ran the Crimson's unbeaten streak to nine games, longest since 1921, and pushed Harvard into second place in the Ivy standings, just behind unbeaten and untied Princeton. It also increased speculation in the Cambridge vicinity that the Crimson was indeed rolling toward an Ivy championship...
...Hope actually belongs on some sort of Mount Rushmore, his nose cantilevered on reinforcing rods near Groucho Marx's cigar and Jack Benny's bow. Hope is the longest-running one-line stand-up snap-it-out comedian in the history of show business. His jokes now have more polish than brass, but they keep coming, with energy and perfect timing. He says he'll never quit: "If I retired, I'd be surrounded by about nine psychiatrists. I'm not retiring until they carry me away, and I'll have a few routines...
...hardly blame them. With its win over Holy Cross last weekend the Green ran its current winning streak to 15 in a row, the longest major college string in the nation. Now, football fans have to have something to complain about; for Indian followers it's getting more difficult every week...
Whether or not he actually wins the throne this time, Britain's cool, complex Deputy Prime Minister is in charge of the government for the time being, and by any measure he has had far the widest and longest administrative training for the top job. He is hard to fault for past mistakes, since he had no responsibility for Suez and hardly any for the Common Market failure, not to mention the Keeler scandal. Moreover, Rab is renowned for his patience. "He seems," says one commentator, "to act in decades and think in centuries...