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...Crimson lightweights had a rougher time of it this weekend as they edged M.I.T. for their fifth straight Biglin Bowl victory Dartmouth, the other shell in the race was never in the competition for the lead...
...experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm of two imperial centuries of interracial injustice and violence. Unlike most people, he could take it but he could not dish it out. Back home on leave, he quit to become a writer. This was rougher duty than bashing natives, or the even rougher self-imposed duty of feeling guilty about the bashing. He became a sort of European native-one of the very poor. In a religious age, his eagerness not merely to write for the poor but to be poor would have been acknowledged...
...industry seems certain to face a far rougher second half. New orders had begun tapering off even before last week's settlement, and some steelmakers expect second-half shipments to decline by more than 20% from their first-half level of 53 million tons. The industry is also concerned about competition from foreign steelmakers, who increased their inroads into the U.S. market by taking advantage of the abnormally high domestic demand for steel earlier this year. Steel from abroad is expected to account for at least 15% of the nation's total 1968 shipments...
...taken cigarette smoking a little over 30 years to become the generally accepted habit that it is today. It has taken science about 20 years to correlate, effectively, lung cancer with cigarette smoking. Alcohol, however, has had a rougher time, with Prohibition and Carry Nation standing in the road of progress. The offspring of its success have been thousands of suffering alcoholics. If marijuana is legalized, it will be interesting to see what vicious effects it will have on our already precarious society by the year 2000. Perhaps everyone will be so high that they won't care...
...time, Ben Sack was primarily involved with a copper and smelting plant. In 1949, he was again offered the chance to invest in a movie house. Again he accepted. This time it looked even rougher. The theatre, which had to be refurbished and reopened, was located in Fitchburg, a factory town of 43,000. It had only one competitor, an already successful operation right next door. Within a year and three months, Sack's group bought out the neighboring opposition. It had been owned by Joseph P. Kennedy...