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...second straight upset loss for Harvard, and once again it was a stubborn goalie and a stiff defense that turned the trick. The Big Red's Earl McGibbon turned back 33 shots with a variety of acrobatic saves. Eight times during the game penalties left Cornell a man short, but McGibbon stopped every Harvard power play except...
...team rallied to topple one of the strongest prep school swimming powers. This year's team is good-already former Australian Olympian Neville Hayes has broken the University record in the 200-yard butterfly--but, unfortunately, Princeton and Yale freshman swimmers are also potent and should provide some stiff opposition...
...Round Table. But aristocratic attributes can be deceptive. Some 400 top students take the stiff examination for career Foreign Office jobs each year (starting salary: $2,220); only 30 to 40 are chosen. Moreover, an Oxbridge education today is usually a badge of merit, not of privilege, and endows its products with an acute sense of history as well as the subtle, precise idiom that makes diplomatic dispatches to the British Foreign Office a model of effective communication...
...considers her pastels mere preludes to the large oils so fashionable today, the artist is plainly a master, through her own swift stroke, of the chalky medium. When her female figures are multiplied in oils and blown up into 10-ft. canvases, they are stripped of intimacy, become stiff and frigid strangers lost in a roomful of mirrors. Through...
...foreign competition. But despite a generally good record of price holding in 1963, industry in recent weeks has begun to inch its prices up. For 1964, few at the moment look for more than just a gradual rise in prices-nothing close to a spiraling inflation. But there are stiff wage negotiations due next year, and there is some danger that basic raw material prices may move sharply upward. Either condition could touch off price changes that would be felt sharply by the housewife...