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...Cuban, and the Mexican Revolutions. And it is very difficult for us to accept the accidents of history--the demands of pragmatism. What the Mexican Revolution did was break the basic, unchangeable social structure imposed by the Spanish Conquest. It may have created a new bourgeois society, but the semi-feudal system during the times of Porfirio Diaz were changed...
...Saturday everything came together, and the Crimson touch was magic. Bain, Lemmon and Brad Desaulniers, in "A" division, beat their opponents to advance to the semi-finals. Chip Robie, playing on a swollen ankle, and Charlie Duffy both dropped close four-game matches and entered consolations. The Crimson stood within a point of Princeton, going into Saturday afternoon's semi-finals...
There was no room for error, with two of the three semi-final matches seeing head-to-head confrontations between Harvard and Princeton players. Bain easily dispatched Princeton's John Barrett, 3-0, while Lemmon polished off Tiger Chris Sherry...
...Crimson's nine entrants--142 pounder Andy McNerney and heavyweight Jim Phills--managed to place within the top sixth finishers. McNerney earned himself a second day of wrestling with two wins Saturday, but was rudely awakened by a pin four minutes into his 2-0 overtime semi-final about against Cornell's Gene Nighman. The Crimson sophomore redeemed himself, though, with a 3-0 decision in his consolation match and earned himself fifth place finish...
Postal Subsidies. Congress created the semi-independent U.S. Postal Service in 1970, expecting that it eventually would become self-sufficient. Instead it kept running deficits, despite frequent hikes of its rates for delivering the mail. Not until last year did Congress insist on cutting its annual subsidy of $920 million by 10%. Now Reagan proposes to take another $632 million from the subsidy in 1982. The initial cuts would mainly affect county post offices and rural deliveries, as well as low-cost mass mailings by charitable institutions and churches. One endangered service: Saturday deliveries...