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...aggressive admissions policy like those adopted by the Ivy "Big Four" will inevitably lead some people to regard the program as a monstrous athletic-purhasing spree. In their joint statement, however, the presidents of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. "In order to prevent misunderstanding and misrepresentation," made it quite clear that they are not giving athletic scholarships...
Almost 500 sweating, singing, backslapping '27 grads, streaks of silver in their hair, spring in their step, and wives and families in their train will officially begin their 25th reunion weeklong spree at the University today...
...land, in the air and on the spree, it was a week of disasters for Brazil. Twenty miles north of Rio, a truck crammed with 86 southbound migrants missed a curve, plunged into a ravine, killed the driver and seven passengers. At Teresópolis, northeast of Rio, rain-loosened mud and rocks thundered down a hill, burying a freight train, a warehouse and four railhands. A Panair do Brasil DC-3 undershot the Uberlãndia airfield, 500 miles north of Rio, and crashed into a clump of trees, killing nine and injuring 23. But of all the week...
...Spree with Profits. These restless groups are simply a shadow of a more acute danger that haunts Japan: a major economic crisis...
...bicycle manufacturer, for instance, is strictly limited in the amount of nickel he may use. Japanese manufacturers may use all they can buy. Japanese businessmen have plunged into a spree of lavish (and tax free) expense-account entertainment, bigger and shinier foreign cars, extravagant nightclubs and pleasure palaces. The sight of an oxcart stopped beside a Cadillac or a Jaguar is no novelty in downtown Tokyo. In this spendthrift, neon-lighted economic chaos, gangsters, blackmarketeers and slick operators-U.S., Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese-wax fat and prosperous. More & more worried Japanese are aware that the imperial...