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John Yovicsin, recently appointed head football coach, made it very clear at his first press conference yesterday that within the limits of the Ivy League, he will bend every effort toward "winning football...
...tolerating crisis and change. With hardly a murmur, key U.S. cities have accepted the sleek Nike antiaircraft missile batteries as next-door neighbors. Scores of cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard in 1954 when Studebaker stalled and Singer (sewing machines) pulled out. and a committee of South Bend businessmen set about making the city attractive to industry, saw three dozen firms move in within three years. Last fortnight the erstwhile textile center of New Bedford...
Novelist Vladimir (Bend Sinister) Nabokov, 57, himself an émigré Russian and a Cornell professor of Russian literature, does more than sound-track his hero for laughs; in unobtrusive flashbacks he captures the underlying pathos of exile. Leafing through an émigré journal, Pnin sees his dead father and mother in the lamplit serenity of their pre-Revolutionary home; stonily viewing a Soviet documentary film, he bursts into tears at a sudden glimpse of the Russian countryside in springtime...
THAILAND (100,000 Christians, an estimated 20,000 of them Protestants"). "Lovely, smiling, shapely people in their fascinating, glittering, flowery land." who bend gently before the harsh winds from outside and so seem impervious to them. This lotusland temperament is the chief obstacle to the Gospel. "Couldn't you almost say that Christianity has its hardest time with people who are nicest? . . . The Christian news has a hard time coming as good news to people who are not themselves torn by the rifts in the world, who are not deeply agitated about what may be wrong with them...
...CASTLE, Del., March 7--A freighter and a Navy-owned tanker slammed together early today at the "Graveyard" bend of the Delaware River, setting off an explosion that ripped a 100-foot hole in the fuel carrier...