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...final period that the defense passed the most severe test. Chuck Sizemore had tried his hand at quarterback in the third period, and on his first play from scrimmage, Martin scooted 62 yards for Yale's only touchdown. It was the only defensive letdown of the day by Harvard...
Last week the Suffolk County legislature took a step unprecedented in the U.S. It banned the sale of virtually all detergents used to wash clothes or clean homes. The ban, which is effective March 1, will be mostly a test of housewives' restraint. Although the law imposes penalties (up to $250 and 15 days in jail) on sellers of detergents, anybody who wants them badly enough can buy them legally in adjoining Nassau County. The real problem is that the detergent industry has not yet developed substitute soaps that work as well and also break down in nature. Even...
There in microcosm was the contest as it had been played out in state after state. The President had set an audacious test for himself when he transformed the mid-term election into a referendum on his presidency and his person. Thus he traveled 17,000 miles through 23 states (Spiro Agnew logged 32,000 miles across 32 states), and he and his party emerged weaker than before. What is astonishing is how badly Nixon and many of his candidates misread the electorate's mood...
Even as SALT resumed, both sides deployed new weapons. The U.S. orbited an advanced spy-in-the-sky that will cover missile launchings from Soviet Asia and China. As Aviation Week will report this week, the Soviets have conducted a second successful test of a missile system that destroys orbiting satellites. Since both sides would depend on satellites to police a SALT agreement, the Soviet weapon is extremely worrisome to the U.S., since it could destroy American spies-in-the-sky at the crucial moment of a Soviet attack...
Masked Skills. The tests mainly predict if a student can achieve "good grades in the standard curriculums as they are usually taught." Test pressures distort education at every level. While some schools overemphasize test taking, colleges occasionally reject low scorers with other talents that would benefit society as well as colleges themselves. Example: 85% of black high school seniors score below the current national average (375) on the verbal-aptitude test. Those scores reflect poor schooling, not the blacks' real potential, says the commission. For all races, the tests tend to mask special skills and interests...