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...that yowling about Laika gave me a pain. Do these dog lovers know that every day in our own grand and glorious country thousands of poor, worn-out old horses are driven up ramps to the slaughter-to provide food for their lousy pets...
...situation wide open by publishing an issue on the day of the game almost wholly dedicated to the most vitriolic attacks on Princeton and its conduct in athletic events against Harvard. In its editorial, it commented, "Lampy looks forward to no chivalrous exhibition of sportsmanship; it will be a glorious free-for-all masquerading under the name of football and the Jester proposes to make the most of them. The Princeton brawl comes but once a year; it may never come again...
After such a publication, the game was an anti-climax. Princeton once more defeated Harvard and sent three of its best players to the hospital. The Crimson fans, egged on by the issue, did their best to throw bottles and generate a "glorious free-for-all" but in general it was an average football game...
Religion = Nationalism? The new government program carefully avoids the word "religious." In its pamphlet distributed to teachers last week, the Ministry of Education refers to learning about Talmud and Torah, tallith and tefillin as "inspiration from the glorious past of the Jewish nation." This sedulously secular approach, many teachers in religious schools think, dooms the program from the start. Said one teacher: "Sacred matters are being treated as if they were small change. The children will be confused and unimpressed...
...Steam is one of the best examples published to date of this squirrel-like activity of the past decade. Snorting steam engines parade through its pages in glorious profusion under bushy black columns of smoke. The photography is top grade, as no railfan would be caught dead without a good camera (and a surprising number know how to use them). And the Dutch printing and engraving is superb...