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...easy to see why; Penn has one of the best collections of lightweight wrestlers around, and Harvard has balance. The Crimson ought to be able to pile up enough points in the middle weight classes be offset an early Quaker lead...
Meanwhile, office workers have to live with the shock problem. In the higher echelons, where the carpeting is lushest, the shocks are worst. To offset this human storage-battery syndrome, some top brass try grounding themselves with door keys, like Franklin's kite. Juniors are careful to pause on metal thresholds before entering the boss's office, in order to discharge accumulated voltage through their shoe soles. "Maybe," says the office manager of a large Manhattan corporation, "we could all trail chains behind us like gasoline trucks...
When Martin tries to offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination...
...Coast Guard's tendency toward narrow victories should be offset by Harvard's depth, which is of great importance in team racing. Dave Stookey, Tim Prince, Dave Gants, and Wilson Halley-each with at least two years of intercollegiate racing experience--will be skippering for Harvard...
Itek's civilian sales are also looking up. Recently it introduced an office copying machine that, using Eastman Kodak patents, can make four offset printing plates a minute from almost any kind of original copy. Some 500 of the machines have been sold at prices...