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...Pouser opened the rout, in the 123-lb. class, by pinning Tech's Stan Park at 5:39, after taking a 2-1 lead in the opening period. Two matches later, John Watkins, wrestling at 137, notched the varsity's second pin, beating M.I.T. sophomore Dave Lathan in 2:37. Nick Estabrook picked up another five points for the Crimson, the easy way, when an injury to Bob Forsten forced Tech to forfeit the 147-lb. division...
...into London for a personal theater appearance, TV's Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian was bushwhacked by the critics. They spoofed his six-gun William Tell act of shooting balloons off a man's head, charged that some other hombre backstage reached out with a long pin. "Course I shoot the gun," drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals...
Modern science's view of antimatter as oddly charged particles that disappear on contact with matter has some connection, Dali thinks, with the medievalists' view of angels, which could light in hosts upon the point of a pin. His new canvas relates to both concepts. Seen close, it does dissolve into pure abstraction-as abstract, say, as the goings-on in a physicist's cloud chamber...
...anyone anywhere celebrates Christmas more impressively-or does retailers more good-than the U.S. businessman. He empties a sackful of gifts on expectant customers, fellow executives, public officials, newspaper editors and anyone else who creeps onto his list. The list has grown so long that today the Santas-in-pin-stripes spend something like $1 billion on yuletide cheer: $300 million for liquor, the rest for a stockingful of loot ranging from $2.50 puddings to $2,500 pianos. The giving is not necessarily due to an excess of Christmas spirit; businessmen simply think that they must. As Denver Radio Station...
...campaigned with her husband at election time but gave few speeches, has made a pincushion out of the back seat of the Meyners' state-owned Cadillac. "These women come up to me with these flowers and they all seem to stick me in the chest when they pin them on me. I keep the pins as souvenirs." Says she: "We're not bitten by the presidential...