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...past seasons, the Big Eight was the private pasture of Oklahoma. Knocking over conference patsies like so many blocking dummies, Oklahoma was undefeated in all of its league games for twelve full seasons. Sportswriters took to sniggering about Oklahoma and "the seven dwarfs." This season Oklahoma is only a notch below its usual standard, but the seven dwarfs have put on so much muscle that the old champion is only one of several teams chasing the conference title. Last week Colorado defeated Oklahoma, 7-0, to stay tied for the conference lead with Missouri, which brushed past Nebraska...
...trade surplus of about $100 million monthly, pays not a cent of the $684 million required to keep U.S. troops on its soil, currently sends out only a trickle in foreign aid. It is running at the rate of $100 million this year, totaled only $274 million in the past six years. Last week Germany moved to substantially step up its aid. France, spending heavily in Algeria, feels that all it can afford is last year's $10 million in aid to countries not tied to France...
Omar Khayyam Moore ("My parents just admired Omar Khayyam") is a chain-smoking Yale sociologist with a theory even more striking than his name. Says he: "It is possible for children aged two to five to type, read, write and take dictation.'' And for the past two years Moore has been proving his point in an experiment at his tiny Yale lab. By letting two-year-olds "play" with an electric type writer, Moore gets them reading at second-grade level within six months. His explanation: "The intellectual capabilities and interests of young children have been seriously underestimated...
...whether Ezra Pound will occupy the footnotes or the chapter headings of future literary history depends, as Biographer Norman concludes, on the poetic merits of the Cantos, a monumental 40-year-long work in progress that has now consumed more writing time than Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past combined. The Cantos are concerned with all history, 20th century history, Pound's personal story, and an eclectic sampling of all he has read. In effect, it is the poetical twin to Finnegans Wake. In sections laden with socio-economic bafflegab, multilingual word play and telegraphic truncations of meaning...
...daffy and exuberant as he tells of working as an apprentice brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, flunkeying on a freighter from Oakland to New Orleans, blasting exaltedly on O(pium) with a Mexican narcotics wholesaler. But the author is not wholly a praiser of his own beat-romantic past. He admits to behavior so much worse than square that it is cubic, or even tesseractical. He confesses, for instance, to paying his way to Europe and rubbernecking around the Louvre. Rembrandt and Franz Hals, he reports, are great...