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...victory enabled the Crimson to regain first place in the Ivy League and gave coach Cooney Weiland a chance to re-shuffle his front lines before the opening round the Bean Pot Tourney at the Boston Garden tonight...
...personal ambitions of its president, Bertram A. Powers, have attracted the most public attention. Powers wants to get to the top of the international union; there is nothing wrong with that, of course, but it is no excuse for prolonging a strike. Local Six, for its part, wants to regain its position as top banana among newspaper unions. The I.T.U.'s former position of leadership is now occupied by the Newspaper Guild, and one way to regain that leadership, Powers reasons, is to win a sensational and unpopular strike...
...anterior cerebral artery, the leg on the opposite side will be more severely affected. But most strokes affect the middle cerebral artery, so the arm is more handicapped than the leg. This is why 90% of stroke victims learn to walk again, while only 10% to 20% regain full use of the right arm-though almost 50% of those under 45, even with severe impairment, could probably do so with proper training...
...independent foreign policy.'' It was hardly that simple. Goulart, a wealthy rancher and political opportunist who climbed to power with the support of labor and the far left, still needs the left's support-at least until a plebiscite next month determines whether he will regain the presidential powers denied him by the distrustful military when he assumed the presidency in September 1961. In public. Goulart takes care not to antagonize the left by seeming to knuckle under the U.S. Privately, he says reassuringly that once the plebiscite is out of the way he will...
Raising Keynes. But what went down did not stay down. A fortuitous combination of actions by business, the public and the Administration, plus the happenstance of foreign affairs, changed the mood. The Administration launched a drive, at first greeted with great suspicion, to regain business confidence. It began paying attention to one of the lesser-known dicta of British Economist John Maynard Keynes, an intellectual godfather of the New Deal. The Keynes' dictum: "Short of going over to Communism, there is no possible means of curing unemployment except by restoring to employers a proper margin of profit...