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Yale, after a frustrating 17-14 loss to Rutgers, will be gunning for a punchless Brown today, and the Bruins should take to the hills. The Elis will be without star quarterback Brian Dowling, who suffered a torn knee ligament last week, but that doesn't matter: Brown last week lost both of its top quarterbacks, Jack McMahon and Wynn Jessup...
From its beginning, said Pusey, the Divinity School has been torn between the need to devote itself to theological scholarship and the desire to provide the "kind of learning, not wholly gained from books, that a man could take with him into the world to help him in the care and cure of souls." Pusey fears that all the arguments over religious doctrine and the place of religion in a university have never really been settled and still lie in wait to ambush today's theologians...
...Bird's beauty crusade had more impact than in Washington, D.C. There her Committee for a More Beautiful Capital has enlivened the city's triangles and circles with trees, flowers and grass, turned the entrances into beacons of blossoms. The principal shopping thoroughfare, F Street, is being torn up to make room for a new landscaped center strip with fountains. Her own personal project is the Capital Mall, where her plans call for sidewalk cafes, gardens, pools and bicycle paths, and a new museum to house the Hirshhorn sculpture collection...
...FRANCISCO, Sept. 29--Rifle-armed National Guardsmen, under orders to "shoot to kill" if attacked, kept an uneasy peace today in riot torn Negro areas of San Francisco...
...Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge. In 1938, a 3,700-seat theater was actually built in Rockefeller Center to be used by the Met, but when the acoustics proved faulty, the company refused to move in, and it was eventually torn down. Many times blueprints were drawn up, models constructed, traffic studies made, fund-raising dinners held. But what with depressions, wars and chronically empty coffers, all the grandiose schemes came to little more than the ragged canvas castles of stage sets piled in the snow on Seventh Avenue...