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Reason A is Dick McPherson, a 6-2, 215-pound monster who pitches baseballs when he's not playing center for the football team. Harvard's team has some sad memories of McPherson; he beat them 8-1 last year, yielding just three hits in the process. At season's end he owned a 5-3 record and a 2.12 earned-run average...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Del Rossi-McPherson Pitching Battle To Highlight Northeastern Game Here | 4/7/1964 | See Source »

...Southeast Asia-if he is wrong. Troublesome and sometimes irrational though he may be, Cambodia's Prince undoubtedly represents the feelings, spoken or unspoken, of many another Asian leader sitting under the shadow of the widely hated Chinese dragon-and unsure how long the U.S. can hold the monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Prince & the Dragon | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...limit in their search for sensationalism. They tell with wide-eyed enthusiasm of numerous sightings of abominable snowmen. They have seriously reported salamanders that came to life after being frozen solid for 5,000 years; a semiconductor device that gives out more energy than is fed into it; a monster that leaves tracks on the bottom of the ocean; a heavy mass of ice that fell from space and did not melt; a mysterious force pervading the universe that makes all revolving bodies, such as Earth, take on a heartlike shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Fiction: Message from 61 Cygni | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...Race. Each year, with splendid monotony, they mop up everything but the oil on the track. When onetime Racing Driver Carroll Shelby decided in 1961 to challenge the master with a cannibalized machine of his own devising - a brutish Ford engine* jammed into a bulging A.C. Bristol body - the Monster of Maranello smiled a fine Italian smile. Last year on this concrete and blacktop track, three of the six Shelby Cobras entered broke down; highest Cobra fin ish was a low eleventh. Two months ago at Daytona, the best a Cobra could do was to place fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Beware the Blue Cabra | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...finite life in this competition for Ivy teams as compared with the "Monster League" is certainly no reason for the Ivy teams to withdraw from the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament, and withdrawal is what Mr. Graham's suggestion would necessitate. If such an Ivy tournament were implemented, it would serve only to rehash the matches which had already taken place during the dual competition season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING TOURNAMENT | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

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