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...would do well, witnessing fencing, to bring a pack lunch. The afternoon lasted thirty minutes long (??) World War II (??) on the (??) nubmered seven at their peak not counting a fellow who came to (??) the Co (??) machirre. Coach Edo Marion sometimes turned his back on the action to post notices on a blackboard about ape?ing matches at Holy Cross, bus schedules and pre-game meals. Directors, hearing much resemblance to references stopped the action in numerable times to give opinions as complete and lengthy as edicts returned by our higher courts. You cannot smoke in the fencing room without offending...
...argue that in any case the strikes have delayed a new round of full-scale fighting by at least five years. Nasser has admitted that he is in no position to liberate the Sinai Peninsula at present. Israeli losses from shelling on the Suez have plummeted from a monthly peak of 30 killed and 76 wounded in July to 5 killed and 20 wounded last month. The Egyptian side of the canal, meanwhile, has been deserted by frightened Egyptians. At least 400,000 have fled or moved out at government order...
...comedian who wisecracked his way to fame on radio's Can You Top This show in the '40s; of cancer; in Greenport, N.Y. In 1940 Ford teamed with Comedians Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie Jr. to challenge radio audiences to a game of comic oneupmanship; at its peak the show attracted 10,000 jokes a week from a regular audience of 10 million listeners. Typical Ford rib-tickler: "Professor to student: 'Give me a definition of syntax.' Student to professor: 'My God, have they got a tax on that...
Penn has a different academic schedule and has been competing throughout the month of January. Barnaby is hoping that the matches this weekend will bring Harvard back to its peak performance level...
Despite the 6% dilution of A.T. & T. stock that the deal may cause, it was ingeniously devised to minimize its effect on the A.T. & T. common, which has been mired for months at a price some 35% below its 1964 peak of $75. Each $100 debenture will come with a warrant usable from six months to 41 years later to buy two A.T. & T. shares, thus stretching the dilution far into the future. As Bell officials must have hoped, the stock lost only a fraction of a point after the big news last week, even though the stock market...