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...responsibility to those of your countrymen who are not present. Professor Aron's sensitive understanding of this responsibility made his lecture a model of honor, and it was equally honorable in its treatment of those in arms against France. It was "critical" only in the sense that a first-rate political analyst gave critical attention to the central elements of the problem under study. The lecture was remarkable for the generosity and sympathy of Professor Aron's discussion of the principal conflicting forces. These are things that it is not at all easy to report well, and so I hope...
Since, in conflict with giants, little guys usually lose, it came as no surprise that the easy-going but very talented varsity swimming team bowled over Spring-field College, 55 to 39, Saturday in its first meet of the season...
Advanced standing sophomore John Pringle splashed to victory in his first college meet, recording a competent 2:09.9 over Gymnast mainstay Ken Kaany in the 20 yard butterfly. Junior Jay Hayden brought in the other Crimson first, a 2:22.5 triumph over Springfield's Harry Stearns in the 200 backstroke...
Kaany and Hank Holte did most of the home team's scoring. Aside from his second to Pringle, Kaany churned to first in the 160 yard individual medley, while Holt listed a win in the 220 freestyle and a third in the 440. For the third straight year, Springfield's Pritchard Poirer outshone Harvard's Rio Johnson in the dive. Former Yardling aoe Jerry Lewy trailed Johnson, who had placed second only to all-time Crimson great Frank Gorman in the Yale meet last year...
Dramatic Gesture. Off to Bonn flew Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson to talk like a Dutch uncle to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, demanding that the prosperous West Germans help stop the steady drain of U.S. gold reserves, which last week dipped below $18 billion for the first time since 1940. Anderson's major demand was that Adenauer shoulder the costs of keeping U.S. troops in West Germany-some $600 million per year. The Germans refused, making some promising counteroffers (see FOREIGN NEWS), but under the rigid terms set by Anderson himself the mission had to be counted a failure...