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...third and fourth freshman heavyweights will row. Then there is a gap of about an hour and a half before the racing resumes...
...votes of the Liberals, who have opposed nationalization. But the price he paid may well upset Britain's touch-and-go economy, and will certainly alarm the businessmen on whom he depends to strengthen it. New figures last week showed that Labor has not yet closed the trade gap: it widened from $165,200,000 in February to $215,600,000 in March...
...This gap between "activity and self" finds expression in college slang such as "come on like," "make like" and "turn on." The compliment "cool" indicates this "same tenuous connection between deed and inclination." Though most of his life is centered on acquiring expertness, he seeks meaning in his personal relationships, and is in, this sense primarily what Keniston calls a "privatist," seeking human bonds to find identity and self-definition. The old question, to bed or not to bed, has been superseded by an "effort to define the precise circumstances under which sexual relations are meaningful and honorable." The professional...
...Institute's program, Coburn said, would fill a major gap in a minister's training. Present divinity education, he said, only widens the separation between clergymen and their congregations and tends to make it "a sterile enterprise unrelated to the needs of society...
This defensiveness, plus the huge ideological gap between gubernatorial Democrats and legislative Republicans, made it difficult and rather useless for Fifties Liberals to conceive of any sort of political compromise. This attitude did not serve Williams well in the 1959 cash crisis--the incident which destroyed his national and severely damaged his local reputation. State revenues had simply dried up during the 1957-58 recession, and when Williams presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless...