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America needs to be written about, especially by poets, especially now. Societies in turmoil often yield the best poets-reactionaries like Pound or Yeats, radicals and reformers like the Neoterics, or the War Poets. All of these have expressed rage at the conditions of society and politics in their poetry, but they have not allowed individual hatreds to blur their poetic craft. Who would remember Brooke and Sassoon, for instance, if they had written not about the monstrosity called war, but about whoever happened to be Prime Minister at the time? Since Miss Merriam has decided to center her work...
...been prepared to receive missiles. The batteries, each containing six missile launchers, have continually edged forward, so that the SAMs now have theoretical command of the air space behind Israel's Bar-Lev Line on the Suez's east bank. If hostilities resume and Egyptian guns again pound the Israeli fortifications, the SAMs could exact a heavy toll from Israeli fighter-bombers crossing the Canal to silence Egyptian artillery. Since at least 15 of the sites house highly sophisticated SA-3s, which are manned by Russians, the Israelis estimate that as many...
With impeccable environmental concern, Treasury renounced incinerators in favor of pulverizers-machines that munch money, then pound the shredded paper into compact packages. The first pulverizers will probably be installed in the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank in about six months. Within five years, says Treasury, all of America's discarded dollars may be recycled into such products as plastics, fiberboard and roofing material. One proposed scheme-using shredded money for building insulation -would give householders the happy illusion of being literally surrounded by millions of greenbacks...
Dartmouth will have the edge at the line of scrimmage. The Indians' defensive and offensive lines are indicative of Dartmouth's overall balance and depth. The Indians lost their All-Ivy offensive tackle, John Ritchie, but a 6'5", 240-pound sophomore, Joe Leslie, took his place. The other tackle is a third-year starter, co-captain Bob Peters, and the center is another All Ivy selection, Mark Stevenson...
...morning about a week before Dartmouth's football season opener with UMass, a 5' 11", 160-pound right halfback from the soccer team went out to the practice field with Big Green kicking coach Jake Crouthamel to try his hand at field goals...