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...savored. With the score tied 3-3 in the tenth inning, Chicago got two men on with two out. Up stepped Rightfielder Mike Hershberger, a .233 hitter. "I'm gonna hit a home run," he vowed. Fat chance. But his sharp single to right won the game, and Señor Al Lopez catapulted off the bench to shake his hand. "It was the first time I've done that in two years," said Lopez...
...when the Bruner Committee made its report, the history-oriented courses in the Natural Sciences which the Redbook proposed had been replaced largely by courses which taught science per se. One effect the Doty Report will have will be to perform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (which have come along way from the monolithic pattern proposed by the Redbook) the legitimizing function which the Bruner Report accomplished for the Natural Sciences. The report does this, first, by maintaining that, in addition to ingraining in Harvard freshmen the understanding of the Western tradition which the Redbook believed important...
...Cuban exile communities from Miami to Caracas, the word was out: "Algo se mueve"-Something is moving. First came the faint, crackling anti-Castro broadcast last week from inside Cuba. Then 24 hours later came word of the biggest raid in months on Castro's fortress. The raiders identified themselves as members of the Movement for Revolutionary Recuperation, led by Manuel Artime, who headed the abortive Bay of Pigs landing...
...electors could easily recognize that some activities are no more a sign of intellectual capacity than an A in Chemistry 20. They would compare not activity per se, but the quality of performance in extracurricular interest: writing, even if not for a magazine; performing, even if not with a group...
...argal, she drowned herself wittingly." But Shakespeare's audience instantly got the message: the sophistry is a satire on a real-life trial (Hales v. Petit) concerning a judge who also lost his reason and drowned himself near Canterbury. When the coroner's jury ruled felo-de-se (suicide), Judge Hale's estate was forfeited to the Crown. Countering in court, his widow roused a wild debate over whether Hale's felonious act of suicide preceded his death in point of time...