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...vote of 297 to 120, the House this week passed the Knutson $6.5 billion tax-cut bill. Bolstered by 63 Democratic rebels, Republicans piled up a margin large enough to override an expected presidential veto with 19 votes to spare. Democrats didn't have a chance. Just before the final vote, the House had rejected their substitute bill, which would have made up for revenue losses with a new excess-profits...
Princeton's passes and Crimson passes all were grabbed by the Tigers, who dropped in five fast baskets and built up a 31 to 22 halftime margin that seemed enough for a victory...
Then, slowly at first but ever faster, Harvard began to look like a basketball team. With four minutes to go the margin was only four points; with two minutes left, two points...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
Riding the crest of a five-genie winning streak, Winthrop's quintet will seek to preserve its margin in the House court loop when play picks up a week from tomorrow. "There will be plenty of hot basketball before the end of the season in March," Samborski predicted, with Dunster, Eliot, and Dudley all sporting top squads...