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...special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper differentiation between the lines and patterns, it was printed as if it were a piece of fine art-by sheet-fed offset on heavy paper-and then was bound with the rest of the magazine, which came off rotary letter presses. For the overseas editions, which are always printed offset, the problem was different: press limitations prohibited use of eight colors, so a pattern had to be devised for use of five colors...
Both teams have shown the same deficiency all year: a lack of scoring punch that has offset good passing games and fairly sturdy defenses. Harvard was held to a scoreless tie by Columbia, then beaten by Dartmouth, 3-2, after missing a dozen good shots in the last 20 minutes of play...
...silence of the News and the Free Press has hurt Romney less than it has hurt Neil Staebler, his Democratic opponent, who needs a big-city sounding board because Democratic office seekers must count on a heavy Wayne County majority (Detroit and suburbs) to offset the strongly Republican vote elsewhere in the state. Thus there was little surprise last week when the effort to solve the strike was shifted to Washington-where influential Democrats are presumably eager to come to the help of Neil Staebler. Both sides were invited to air their grievances before a panel of federal mediators...
Next year the auto division hopes to increase sales enough to hit the breakeven point. That would be a welcome relief to the corporation's ten other divisions, which make everything from floor sweepers to stoves but whose healthy profits (more than $11 million in 1963) have offset auto losses. No one expects any major Studebaker comeback (the company now has only one-half of 1% of the U.S. auto market), and Detroit would not be surprised if Studebaker eventually completed its exit from the auto business. But Studebaker is stubbornly hopeful. "We're living hand to mouth...
...Crimson to win, Walt Hewlett must turn in his fourth straight first place and Dave Alien, Smith, and Chiappa--if he runs--must finish in the first eight to offset the Harvard injuries...