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This spring the quest for the $100,000 jackpot that will go to the championship team has caused more than the usual amount of erratic behavior. The Los Angeles Lakers, listless and barely able to survive their first-round clash with the bruising Chicago Bulls, came roaring back to polish off the Golden State Warriors in five games. The Knicks, helped by an injury that all but immobilized Celtic Star John Havlicek, ran up a commanding lead of three games to one, then lost two in a row. With that the Celtics did something they had never done before...
Cambridge won't exactly explode when the winless Crimson and MIT lacrosse squads clash for the City championship, but the stickmen (0-9) are apt to light a few fuses today at 4 p.m. on Tech turf in their best prospect of a win this season...
...advises Arrupe on educational matters. Indian Jesuit Herbert de Souza observes that Jesuits react to the crisis in one of two ways: "Some of us become numbed while others overreact. There will be a split among thinking men, especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...
...library, concerts and some courses to the public, Botstein has also improved relations with the conservative townspeople. He explains: "Many of them used to feel that the people on the hill thought themselves better, had a direct line to the truth, and held the locals in contempt. Now the clash has vanished...
There is no World War I and no Hitler, although a devastating global war does develop in 1939. The immediate cause of the war was a clash between Britain and Germany for the oil of the Ottoman Empire. Television and the widespread use of airplanes begin earlier in the C.N.A. than they did, in fact, in the U.S. But the atomic bomb is developed about 20 years later. Russia never grows into a power, but Mexico frightens the world...