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...Gets Nod...
...team in practice is enough to convince you the talent is not equally distributed. There are 20 guys Harvard really wants to play--you know, the ones whose names are on the starting roster in mid-August. And there are 80 guys, clawing, groping vainly for some coach to nod their way. They show that aimless hustle--the hustle of an athlete who's wearing the yellow, green or most likely shredded red jersey, emblematic of those fifth or sixth strings to which they must cling...
...first of what should be many exciting Ivy games this year. The Bruins stopped making mistakes last week and smashed Rhode Island, 45-15. Penn ripped Lehigh, 28-18, in its opener. This is a very important game for the teams involved; the Red and Blue get a slight nod because they have a bit more class. Penn 28, Brown...
There were odysseys in which the Sirens are silent. Without paper, he conceived stories the intricacy and strangeness of which might have earned him a nod of approval from Dickens, the Pentateuch and Tolstoy of England. Before paper his imagination withdrew like a snail whose horns had been touched...
...notion of at least a modest increase in public-service jobs got a nod last week from Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. In a television interview, he favored a $1 billion program to create 200,000 jobs if the unemployment rate reaches 6% (it was 5.4% in August). Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns is an ardent backer of an even bigger plan...