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...regard to the article, "The Real Brand X" [Oct. 31], let me say: It's not that I really believe that "first place is too crowded"-it's that I am so utterly sick, sick, sick of loud and aggressive commercials telling me how superior some product is-that I am more than happy to try Brand X, out of sheer negativism. Three cheers for good old maligned Brand...
...members of both Corporations are expected to attend the dinner, which will take place at the Pusey home. Among the guests will be A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, and Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State...
Naturally, it is always pleasant to defeat Yale, no matter what the circumstances. But there are two additional enticements that would make a Crimson win today more profitable than usual. Second place in the Ivy League will go to the victor, and there is still the possibility that the winner may get an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament...
Princeton has already won the Ivy crown with a 6-1 record. The Bulldogs, with a 4-1-1 slate, are currently in second place, half a game ahead of the Crimson (4-2). Thus, the varsity can move into second with a triumph. A defeat would leave the Crimson tied for third with Dartmouth, the team that started all the trouble for coach Bruce Munro's eleven by surprising the varsity, 5 to 3, in mid-season...
This time the Student Council's hastily-contrived inverse filibuster technique succeeded. After threatening to hold frequent meetings until it could obtain a quorum--and after calling a fifteen-minute recess at the first of these meetings to place a few judicious telephone calls to absentees--the Council came through...