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Navy won one race Saturday, but the Middles failed to worry the improving varsity swimming team. Harvard's 58 to 17 victory was its fifth straight, all by wide margins, and it greatly increased the likelihood that Hall Ulen will take an undefeated squad into the Yale meet...
...give up producing bombs (he gives a seven-day ultimatum which is to expire at noon--hence the title). The issue at hand, therefore, is: will he be found and stopped before he explodes his bomb? The answer is too obvious. No one can fool himself into accepting the likelihood of something so well-established as London being blotted out, and besides, everyone who sees the movie knows that London was still standing when he went into the theatre. In the average thriller, or even in the foregone-conclusion romance, the audience can always believe, or suspend its disbelief, that...
...bundle of contradictions. In one breath, he urged the U.S. to show "sympathy and understanding" toward Communist China, at all cost avoid further conflict in Asia. In the next, he showed no sympathy or understanding whatever in India's long dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, thereby increasing the likelihood of more bloodshed on the Indian subcontinent...
...GSAS, very little change is expected next year from this semester's enrollment of 1727. Dean Rogers said that the likelihood of deferment is greater in the GSAS than in all other grad schools except the Medical School. Rogers has written deferment letters for 174 students, and only three of these men have been called...
...fetus," suggested Dr. Ingalls in explanation, "has been blighted by what might be called intrauterine drought . . . [It may be] a metabolic drought, a biochemical upset, transient vitamin or enzyme deficiency, or oxygen lack." The likelihood that oxygen shortage may be the villain in many cases is heightened, said Dr. Ingalls, by the fact that mongolism often results from a pregnancy marked by early vaginal bleeding, and this bleeding might starve the fetal brain of oxygen...