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Foster scored a reverse after his oppo- nent, Steve Smethurst, had taken him down in the first period. In the second period, two escapes offset a Smethurst takedown. In the final period, Smethurst escaped after Foster had ridden him for most of the period to pile up the needed time advantage to gain the draw...
Coach Floyd Wilson then called on his second-string guards, Harrington and Bob Barnett, to put some life into the attack. Harrington then tossed in the next six points for the varsity, to offset a pair of M.I.T. baskets...
...industrial equipment, running up an import bill that was a full $1 billion higher than the country's export earnings. Such a trade deficit could have been ruinous to a less prosperous country, but Canada took it in stride: the heavy flow of foreign (mostly U.S.) investment offset the drain on gold and dollar reserves. As the year ended, Canada's currency position was so strong that the Canadian dollar rose in value to more than $1.04 U.S., a 23-year high...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...
...other non-sophomore is junior Raymond, who normally wrestles at 177. Although he will probably be giving up nearly 10 pounds to his opponent, he has the speed and strength to offset this disadvantage...