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...Bears' rugby team usually calls itself the football team in the fall, some forecasters consider the Crimson will be in second place again next April. The fact that in rugby a touchdown counts for only three points, however, reduces the likelihood of a 44-0 score. By a strange coincidence, the Bears consider Stanford to be their main rivals on the rugby field, and plan to use the Indians as part of their preparation for the Crimson...
...their immediate dissolution, and go back to the country for new elections. "But this," as the London Economist pointed out, "would require an improbable degree of self-abnegation"-and unless this divided Assembly could first agree on some useful set of electoral reforms, 22 million Frenchmen would in all likelihood only say again what they said last week...
...visiting Peking, as the intermediary; another had Chiang Ching-kuo pushing the negotiations. At week's end Chiang Ching-kuo had had enough. "The rumors published this week are malicious fabrications," said Chiang Ching-kuo in a written statement that seemed to exclude any likelihood that the Peking Communists would or could deal with him. "Communists are liars and devils. You cannot talk with the devil. It is my ardent belief that to solve the Communist problem, the only way is to eliminate Communism...
...passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita? Other theorists argue that a waterspout struck Joyita and pointed to her damaged superstructure as evidence. But careful examination of the damage by qualified experts indicated that it was, in all likelihood, the result only of wallowing unmanned in the pounding...
...Crimson must win this morning if it is to retain a chance of overtaking Yale and Pennsylvania in the Ivy League. The team has already lost once in the League, and there is no likelihood, excluding the Crimson-Eli encounter, that either Yale or Penn will lose another game. CURRENT IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS Yale 3-0 Dartmouth 2-3 Penn 4-1 Cornell 0-2 Harvard 2-1 Brown 0-4 Princeton...