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...apparently misunderstood Oxford's letter," Ralph I. Petersberger, president of the Council, said last night. "They want to split up, with one man on each side of the question." Although the Harvard team was disappointed by this situation, the Oxford squad strongly approved. "Peter finds debating my side of the question distressing," Derek Bloom of Oxford said of his colleague, Peter Tapsel...
Gamesmanship. But Fulton's interview had already exposed a real split in U.S. opinion toward Latin American aid. Humphrey's policy obviously fell short of the recommendations that Milton Eisenhower made a year ago to the President...
...further complicating factor in every index is the frequent stock splits, which distort the statistics. If a Dow-Jones stock is split three for one, for example, it is given a statistical weight greater than its former importance. Hence a stock like General Electric, which has been split twelve times since 1929, is relatively more important in the average than one such as General Foods or Woolworth which has had no splits...
...league. Pro football being what it is, Paul takes this judgment for what it is meant to be-sheer flattery. "I play the Lions' kind of football," says Paul. "I don't hit with my fists, but when I hit a ball carrier and there is a split second between then and the time the whistle blows, I hit him again, hard." As far as Paul is concerned, the difference between a good pro player and a good college player can be summed up easily: "In the pros, you know how to get that extra leverage...
Ulen thus forced the Dartmouth coach to pull his best men off the relay team in order to take the 440, but Hawkins again split Glover and Hust with a second place. The Green could still tie, however, by capturing the relay...