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Harvard's showing in the South, where it outscored its opponents 40-14, would be enough to spark dreams of invincibility in the heart of a Cub rooter. Rollins, which had been practicing since January and already had 18 games under its belt, scored four runs in the sixth inning to spoil the Crimson's debut, 6-2, on April 5. But in the second seven-inning contest of the day, Harvard exploded with seven runs in the sixth inning for an 3-5 revenge...
Although a few speculators had already introduced metal tokens into a few Nevada houses-notably Spark's Nugget and Lake Tahoe's Wagon Wheel -Segel's tokens (usually nickel alloy) began rolling around the state like tumbleweed, are now being shoved into the slots of one-armed bandits in 50 of the state's 70 gambling houses. For the operators, it means more than nostalgia. The coins have proved a source of revenue. Customers have taken such a shine to tokens that instead of cashing them in for a dollar upon leaving, they have begun...
...satisfy them, they ordered us to take off our clothes. I opened my mouth wide and said 'Aaaaaaaah,' just to show I had no books inside." Though Red bluenoses scored the book as "decadent, trivial and pornographic," Popescu seems safe from chastisement: the party paper Scinteia (Spark) endorsed him as "a talented author, justly praised by both readers and critics." The regime has no praise, however, for Novelist Petru Dumitriu, a defector whose superb 1964 novel Incognito viciously dissected the Communist seizure of power in postwar Rumania...
...spark came in 1956 when Roger Vadim, then a lowly assistant director, somehow wrangled his producer into backing a low-budget effort entitled And God Created Women starting Vadim's own wife, who happened to be Brigitte Bardot. The film's success encouraged normally conservative French producers to exploit the appeal of both unknown stars and directors, and France at that time harbored a huge backlog of just such talent...
Burns also ran a 1:54.5 lead-off leg in the two-mile relay to spark what looked like another record-breaking performance. The quartet had a shot at the Harvard mark of 7:47.1, but Frank Haggerty, the anchor-man, wore himself out too early and jogged home with a 2:02 to round out a 7:54.1 effort...