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...Congress. If he plays this game as he played Trade Expansion a year ago, he will no doubt be willing to sacrifice everything else. Yet he ought not forget that if he leaves foreign aid defenseless this year he will do far worse than cause the resignation of the tenth aid agency director in eleven years; he will hear the death-rattle of the program itself...
...property, which the University would have used for a tenth house and for taxable office space, was put up for bids by the MTA. It was heavily emphasized in all publicity that the MTA reserved the right to reject any and all all bids. This has led to at least one theory that the yards were put up for bids only to enable the MTA to determine the vicinity of a fair market price and then to engage in individual negotiations later...
When John Pringle stepped up on the block, the Bulldogs gasped in amazement. The Crimson junior had already won two exhausting races and hadn't swum the breaststroke all year. He was still too much for the vaunted Yurow, however, touching out the Bulldog by a tenth of a second...
...other hand, several able, politically-minded aristocrats who refuse to sit in the Lords have joined Wedgwood Benn's boycott with the express aim of changing the system. Among them: Lord Hinchingbrooke, a lively Tory rebel who lost his Commons seat this year when he became the tenth Earl of Sandwich, and Lord Altrincham, a trenchant anti-Establishment columnist for the Liberal Manchester Guardian...
...most countries, youth gets passionately political when it tastes higher education and rapid social change. Yet American collegians, taken as a whole, remain unconcerned: even the current political revival on U.S. campuses probably does not involve more than a tenth of all students. What feeds this peculiar American trait, and will it ever change...