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Sabin Willet got Harvard on the board early by taking Peter Hilton's pass and scooting 20 yards for the game's first try. Walter Herbert battled a stiff wind and a difficult angle on the conversion, but his kick sailed through the uprights to make...
...STIFF UPPER LIP by Peter Israel; Crowell 187 pages...
Hashish, according to a character in The Stiff Upper Lip, "is the biggest growth product in France." A runner-up might be basketball, le basket, which the French have discovered with delight and ineptitude. As Private Detective B.F. (for Benjamin Franklin) Cage soon finds out in his third adventure sponsored by Peter Israel, the two trades can be slimily and bloodily involved...
Bankers and businessmen quickly hailed the measures, which many thought long overdue. "Superb!" exclaimed Robert Abboud, chairman of First National Bank of Chicago. "It is stiff medicine but very much needed medicine, and I applaud the Administration for having the courage to apply it." Ford Motor Co. Vice Chairman and President Philip Caldwell said the dollar-saving moves should "slow inflation and re-establish growth on a healthier basis." Richard Kjeldsen, senior international economist for Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles, asserted, "The President's economic package is drastic, abrupt and volatile?it's just what the doctor ordered...
...would have been easier then," Campbell said last week, adding, "This year's competition is stiff...