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...goal. He missed by inches, but the crowd settled back with a satisfied sigh. The final score (Brazil 5, France 2) was a foregone conclusion. Brazil's soft, pinpoint passes, incredibly skilled dribbling and booming scoring shots added up to the finest play yet seen in the longest and toughest soccer tournament ever staged...
...games, including four from the New York Yankees, ¶Not even the obstacle of a stalled motorboat could stay the veteran, power-stroking Yale crew from sweeping through the dusk on the Thames River in New London, Conn, to trounce Harvard by three lengths in the nation's longest (four miles) and oldest (107 years) boat race, and to prove again that it is the finest in the land...
...competition with municipal and corporate issues, give the Federal Reserve a freer hand in controlling the money supply. In spite of complaints from money men that long-term issues would hinder the easing of money rates, Anderson tried several such issues. He judged the market shrewdly. Fortnight ago his longest-term issue (27 years), for $1 billion, was heavily oversubscribed...
...Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...
Last week the Justice Department filed in the Supreme Court a Texas-sized 425-page brief -the longest federal brief in the court's history. It argued that Texas, Louisiana and the other gulf states reach only three miles out, not three leagues, and dunned the states for some $100 million in oil revenues collected from drillers operating beyond the three-mile limit. The U.S., said the brief, has always fixed its national boundary at three miles offshore and has urged other nations to do likewise. "Manifestly, state boundaries cannot extend beyond the national boundary. By annexing Texas...