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Columbia has managed only four wins in 24 outings and is currently nestled with Yale in the Ivy cellar. But it showed some firepower against Penn last week, falling to the nation's tenth-ranked Quakers...
...youngsters are asked to bend at the waist and touch their knees with their fingertips; a curvature will usually produce a visible fullness on one side of the rib cage or the other. In most Minnesota schools, nurses and physical education teachers regularly check youngsters in the fifth through tenth grades. Testing is also routinely conducted in Downey, Calif., and a program is being proposed for elementary schools in New York's Nassau County...
...Vries, editor of the Morgan Guaranty study, forecasts a 20% average annual rise by volume in imports by OPEC countries. But as the volume of imports grows, such a rate might well become increasingly difficult to sustain, especially for countries with primitive domestic economies. Armaments made up about one-tenth of imports last year. Shipments of war materiel cannot continue to increase -unless the selling nations are willing to take even graver risks that a conflagration will erupt in the Middle East...
...indictment," which was reprinted in several Saigon newspapers: "It is impossible to obtain peace with Thieu, because he is a product of war, was nurtured on it and survived with it." The President's response was swift and predictable. The Saigon government confiscated nine newspapers and censored a tenth; five of the papers were closed down indefinitely, and 21 journalists and publishers were arrested on charges that they were "Communist agents...
...temperature and increasing the pressure upon it. The plasma will be made even hotter by an electric current generated inside it by another magnetic field and by a beam of deuterium atoms shot into it. These combined effects should raise temperature and pressure high enough in about a tenth of a second to begin fusion of the deuterium and tritium nuclei. The scientists' major goal: to come close to producing as much fusion energy during one of these periods as is used to power the Tokamak during the same time...