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This year the familiar pattern has again been--unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched of when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
...meant to hold up after 17 years. In any case, it hasn't. A drawing-room piece about a middle-aged woman (Jane. Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter. It has no glaring faults; it is just so tame and predictable as to be generally dull...
...Fairless, Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, General Electric Co.'s Charles E. Wilson, Henry Kaiser, Eastern Air Lines, Inc.'s Eddie Rickenbacker, Procter & Gamble Co.'s Richard R. Deupree, Sam Goldwyn and Radio Corp. of America's David Sarnoff -fitted the rags-to-riches pattern set by some of 1917's tycoons. And some of the leaders still had the old empire-building names-Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Henry Ford II and Nelson Rockefeller...
...warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice of a free press and to destroy the sources of trustworthy information. . . . In following in this respect the pattern endorsed by Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, Señor Perón has embarked on a course of infinite danger to his country...
...With the three ports, the Authority plans to establish a new air pattern for New York's Metropolitan area. The Authority firmly believes that the solution to air congestion is not merely bigger airports but a number of airports which split up the traffic. As a start, the low-traffic Newark port will handle 52 of the flights now using LaGuardia every day. Eventually, the Authority hopes that Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short...