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Somehow last night's contest seemed appropriate for the farewell. Dart-mouth, missing the leading scorer in the Ivy League, Larry Lawrence, entered the building and tried to stall. With its core of nobodies, the team sank into an understandable, if ineffective, stall--like North Carolina's four corners with a man in the penalty. And the people were bored. And the players were bored. When Dartmouth scored its first point, almost seven minutes into the game, the crowd cheered lustily. The game was painted IAB green...
DIED. Bruce Austin Fraser, 93, deceptively mild-mannered admiral who served from 1948 to 1951 as Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, after having distinguished himself in World War II through exploits like commanding the force that sank the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943; in London...
With the opening of the second half, the Crimson began its comeback. The quintet of Ann Scannell, Pat Horne, Marget Long, Elaine Holpuch and Jane Judge started to click. Horne sank a couple of quick jump shots, and Long, who led the team in scoring (12 points) and rebounding (11), came up with some key caroms and the Crimson had taken the lead...
Carter's spirits sank. Dismayed, angry and frustrated, he had to be helped physically by his aides as he walked from the Oval Office, past the Rose Garden, to the upstairs family quarters to get ready for the Reagans. "He was as near despair as I have ever seen him," a top aide recalled later. "It was incredible agony...
...addition to the good news from Washington, Chrysler has recently received encouraging reports from the marketplace. During the first ten days of January, sales rose by nearly 5% over the same period a year ago. By comparison, General Motors' sales dropped by 17%, and Ford's sank...