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...Lamarche, who reinjured his fragile knee during last Saturday's 6-2 win at Princeton, skated in yesterday's practice, and should see at least limited action tonight. The Gene Kinasewich-Ike Ikaunike-Bill Fryer line, which has scored nine times in the last two games, will be in peak condition...
...Premarital sexual relations are al lowed in a clear majority of societies, but extramarital relations are almost universally condemned. Every known human society forbids incest, but nearly all have a recognized procedure for divorce, which in the U.S. reaches a peak around the third year of marriage. A curious cementing factor in societies allowing free mate selection is that partners tend to complement each other's psychological needs-for example, "a highly hostile individual would seek to mate with a highly abasing person...
Before President Kennedy issued the executive order exempting married men, the Army drafted few men under 23. The decrease in the manpower pool and a drop in the rate of re-enlistment have forced draft quotas up from 9000 a month before the executive order to a peak of 17,000 this November...
...engineers found that "contrary to popular belief, the volumes of traffic going through the Harvard Square area are relatively small." About 6000 motor vehicles traveled through the 75-block study area during the evening peak, half of them passing the MTA klosk...
Since Streectar (1947), Williams has operated below peak form. He has offered a stream of new and rewritten works--a dozen of them--but only in parts of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the old mastery evident. Earlier this month a revised version of Tinkerer Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More failed as decisively as had its previous version a year ago. More and more people are suspecting that Williams has been a burned-out writer for a long time; and many of these date the demise from the time Williams started undergoing psychoanalysis...