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...Longest College Season...
...season which began a month ago extends until March 20, and is Harvard's longest for intercollegiate competition. Official matches for the New England Intercollegiate League trophy, held in mid-March, will and the season...
From the steaming jungles of southern Mexico, over mountains and past frowning volcanoes, across the sunbaked plains of the north to the banks of the Rio Grande, stretches the longest, most punishing car-racing course in the world. On these twisting, plunging 1,912 miles of macadam and concrete, the fourth Pan-American road race began last week. One of the greatest international meets ever held, it had 177 starters from ten countries and was actually four races in one-big and small sports cars, big and small stock cars. At stake was a total $101,271 in prize money...
Along the Indian-Chinese frontier, the longest frontier in the world between oppression and a democracy, Communist infiltrators are burrowing into the border states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim-which lie upon India's side of the great Himalayan battlement (see below). From this frontier, where ice-winds howl and lichen creeps around the tall mountains, an Indian Army Mission reported: "Long considered impregnable ... the frontier . . . [is] now looked upon as a possible route of infiltration, if not of invasion...
...runner-up spot by beating South Carolina 24-6. Among the top teams still unbeaten: Baylor, which solidified its Southwestern Conference lead by defeating Texas Christian 25-7; Illinois, a top Big Ten entry, which beat Purdue 21-0; and West Virginia, now holder of the U.S.'s longest (twelve game) major-college undefeated streak, which edged Penn State 20-19. In one of the week's stunners, lowly Oregon, loser in four straight Pacific Coast Conference games, knocked haughty Southern California. Rose Bowl champion, from the unbeaten ranks 13-7. Another reversal came when Dartmouth, loser...