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...awakened out of my reverie by a raucous voice shouting in my ear. "Iced Coke--Hot chocolate!" The electric time clock at the end of the horseshoe flashed to its final reading--00.00. The referee's whistle blew. The contestants withdrew. A score of nil-nil was generally adjudged by the cognoscenti to be as good as could have been hoped...
...Yale Political Union, a student debating society, invited Governor Wallace of Alabama to speak at Yale during his tour of the North, Brewster warned that Wallace's presence at Yale would strain dangerously relations with New Haven's Negro community and might cause violence. As a result the YPU withdrew its invitation...
...Yale Political Union, which sent Wallace a speaking invitation Sept. 17, withdrew it last Thursday after Kingman Brewster, Jr., the university's provost and acting president, warned that Wallace's presence might provoke violence...
When pretty Catherine Loh was elected Miss Malaysia last April, the pert beauty from the oil-rich British protectorate of Brunei fully expected to preside over the independence ceremonies of the newly formed Federation of Malaysia. But that was before Brunei withdrew from the planned federation in a state of pique, leaving Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to go it alone. Brunei's defection not only left this week's joyous celebrations without a beauty queen but it also took Malaysia out of the running for the Miss Universe contest...
...Sunsuvbijches." Perennial letter topic for Frost was his running lover's quarrel with the world of education. It began when Frost withdrew in succession from Dartmouth and Harvard, and it tormented him through his later years of sporadic teaching in half a dozen schools and colleges, including Dartmouth and Harvard. "I could never forgive the sunsuvbijches' belief," he explained with pique to Untermeyer, "that they were leaving anybody behind who was not getting toward their degrees...