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...printed The Harvard Summer News (later The Summer Crimson), which was essentially a Summer School-funded paper printed by The Crimson as a money-making venture. In 1971, Summer School officials, in an attempt to intimidate Crimson editors who had been engaged in vehement criticism of the University administration, withdrew that funding. Since that day, the summer issues of The Crimson have been totally without debt to the Summer School administration...
...computer-age equivalent of the BANK ERROR IN YOUR FAVOR card in Monopoly: the Commercial Trust Co. of Jersey City mistakenly notified him that $100,000 had been credited to his account. A bachelor who eked out a living buying and selling coins, Walsh quietly withdrew the money and set out to pursue his modest version of the American dream...
...rays that determined precisely where the artery was blocked, he positioned the balloon exactly in the middle of the arterial narrowing and inflated it for several seconds. That compressed the obstructing plaque against the arterial wall, widening the diameter to near normal size. Then, deflating the balloon, the doctor withdrew both catheters. The entire procedure took less than an hour and was apparently successful; a new set of X rays showed that the artery, free of obstruction, once more carried blood freely. Two days later, his angina gone, Robert left the hospital and returned to work...
...voyage in 272 days aboard the Express Crusader, accompanied by her kitten Boris and a stack of Rod Stewart tape recordings. Upon hearing about her feat, Explorer Tristan Jones, who has circumnavigated the globe three times, urged club officials to wire congratulations to James. When they refused, he huffily withdrew his application for membership and denounced the members as "bloody old fogies who've gone around the world once in a steamer...
...some 200 Canadians were suddenly disqualified last week from the annual Salmon Derby. Exclaimed Contest Chairman David Olerud, owner of a sporting goods store: "My God, they're our neighbors!" In Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, about 100 commercial fishing boats-60 or so American-withdrew in the direction of their home ports. Both countries then set their diplomats to thrashing out the issue that had divided them: the right to fish off each other's coast...