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...only non-incumbent independent with strong odds for winning is Leonard J. Russell, a garbage contractor who came in tenth last election, missing a Council seat by only a few votes...
...Arctic. What each species shares with the others is an improving prospect for survival due to the efforts of a unique conservation organization. That group is the World Wildlife Fund, whose members gathered last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel to celebrate with deserved pride their tenth anniversary. From an obscure club of wealthy do-gooders, W.W.F. has grown into a United Nations of conservation, whose efforts on behalf of hundreds of endangered species are felt from Scotland to Sumatra...
...remember being really bored by a play on the evening of my tenth birthday," Max Beerbohm once wrote. How sad that he would have been equally bored by The Incomparable Max, the play that owes its title to Bernard Shaw's apt and durable phrase. Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee also came to praise Sir Max, but they ended up burying...
...Long hair has increasingly been caught up in the machinery of justice, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, for one, has had enough of it. Faced with three cases that opposed hair-length regulations for public school boys in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, the court said: "We are convinced that the United States Constitution and statutes do not impose on the federal courts the duty and responsibility of supervising the length of a student's hair." Neither free-speech rights nor any other of the variety of claims asserted impressed the court. Rather, the judges felt that...
...clobbered. Harvard lost to Penn 15-47 while Yale and Princeton each lost 15-50. If a comparison of the Penn races means anything. Harvard should be the slight favorite: Harvard's first man against Penn placed eighth while the Tiger's number one man could only manage a tenth place finish...