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...Winthrop/Leverett gridders showed yesterday that they not only have an offense that can go to the air convincingly and run with style, but one which can also, so to speak, go both ways. The 'Thropettes went both backward and forward on their way to a convincing 22-0 drubbing of Lowell in the first round of the House football playoffs...
...major candidates themselves are going to be watching the size of the protest vote. Not only, in other words, is it possible to retain moral integrity by this course of action, but one can also effectively register opposition to the inadequacies of all three major candidates and to the backward-looking American system which produced and sanctions them...
...Egyptian Nazi sympathizers, he presents Follett's simple but valid editorial: "Yes. We're not very admirable, especially in our colonies, but the Nazis are worse . . . It is worth fighting. In England decency is making slow progress; in Germany it's taking a big step backward. Think about the people you love, and the issues become clearer...
Zhao now faces the formidable task of making China's backward economy productive and of shaking up a stifling bureaucracy. He has his work cut out for him. Recently, for example, a foreigner imported a car. The exercise involved three visits to the Public Security Bureau, three to the country's only insurance company, three more to the customs office. The final mandatory stop-the car must be clean before it can be licensed-was at Peking's only car wash, where the bill came to $40. Exclaimed a Chinese intellectual on hearing the story...
...results of such epidemiological studies are not entirely convincing. The problem: scientists must trace effect back to probable cause ratherthan identifying cause and looking for effects. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, who established the asbestos-cancer connection: "You're always working backward in this field...