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...A.M.A. and the American Cancer Society seemed more concerned than ever over the medical problems involved with tobacco. The A.M.A.'s new president. Dr. George M. Fister, of Ogden, Utah, announced in his inaugural address that, to guide physicians, the A.M.A. would start a year-long study of smoking and disease. The American Cancer Society, eager to snuff out smoking among college students, began a campaign to persuade university presidents to ban tobacco company sponsorship of radio and TV broadcasts of intercollegiate athletic events...
Rich Convergence. Early next April, when Eltanin begins her first year-long cruise at the start of the Antarctic winter, she will steam due south from Cape Horn until she reaches the solid pack ice of the Bellingshausen Sea. Then a quartering course will carry the ship many times across the "Antarctic Convergence," where cold water from the south dives under the warmer water of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. This region boils with life, from tiny diatoms to whales, and marine biologists believe it may some day become the world's richest source of protein food...
...favor of this type of legislation," insisted Keppel, warning of the dangers which arise whenever a legislature tries to introduce its own ideas into school curriculum. Keppel cited analogous situations of compulsory instruction in other states, such as a year-long course in Texas history required in all Texas schools, and the strong emphasis placed on the evils of alcohol in other states...
...November the HAA reversed its year-long ban by Dean Watson, then acting director of Athletics, forbidding dates on overnight bus trips. Although the Band has always been given free date tickets to non-Ivy games, next year will be the first time members will be given date tickets to all games...
...only remotely plausible arguments for PT are that it provides a social milieu for those who do not have the comradeship of prep school associations and that it may provide a compulsory break in study for those who drive themselves to overwork. It certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...