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PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 10--The man who wanted to abolish intercollegiate football at Brown University survived his debate against the athletic department tonight, but announced the end of his one-man campaign...
...answer to a question, Thompson was forced to admit that his petition to abolish the game and his Strategy Committee were indeed flctitious. Sweating but still emphatic after a two-hour dedate, he told the CRIMSON, "This is the end. I just wanted to start the controversy and point out the over-emphasized sanctity of the game at Brown. Someone else may carry the ball." Upon congratulating his opponent, Thompson was told by Mackessey, "Carry on, Wade...
...mineral-rich, dirt-poor, coup-prone Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000). The angry crowd was demonstrating against an article in magamogul Henry Luce's Time (circ. 2,300,000), quoting an unidentified American embassy official as having said that the only solution to Bolivia's problems was to "abolish Bolivia and let its neighbors divide the country and its problems among themselves...
BROKERS' COMMISSIONS on stock transactions under $2,400 will be reduced by the New York Stock Exchange. Adjustments, effective March 30, will cut last May's rate increases from 13% to 11.5%, abolish "round-turn" commissions, where customers pay half the regular rate on blocks of stock bought and sold within 14 days...
...lack of it is a heated topic, Schlesinger's assessment of Roosevelt as an executive is intriguing. On the book's evidence. Roosevelt dodged decisions as long as he could, operated in a wild confusion of often contradictory ends, preferred to create ten new jobs rather than abolish an existing one. All this Schlesinger defends as a manifestation of genius, the triumph of flair over disorder; and in a sense perhaps...