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Harvard foil man Don Valentine, again ran afoul of the erratic fencing streaks that plagued him throughout the regular season. Valentine, who nearly missed the finals after an unimpressive performance in the preliminaries, could not get untracked in Friday and Saturday's competition. He dropped twelve straight bouts in the first phase of the finals and six more the next day to finish 24th in the tournament...
Because of its friendship with China, Tanzania in years past has run afoul of U.S. policy. "I understand the U.S. as a power with global responsibilities and views," Nyerere said in 1966. "But what I cannot understand is the policy based on the idea that one way of assuring world peace is to ostracize China. This yellow disease!" (Richard Nixon would now agree.) As for Communism, Nyerere wonders: "What is its application to Africa? How do you preach it in Sukumaland [a district of Tanzania]? In a peasant country, without feudalism, how do you do it? From a distance, Africa...
...McFadden has been willing to put up with heavy traveling and many all-male meetings. She still runs afoul of slights because of her sex. Recently she went golfing with Jewel officers, and was told that women were not allowed to play that day. In finding more women executives for Jewel, she has been markedly unsuccessful. She admits that she might be a more severe judge than a man would be: "It could be the standards I've set for myself, or it might be a certain amount of jealousy...
...cattle breeding, the name of the game is to improve the strain. Thus ranchers think nothing of importing desirable cattle from halfway round the world to crossbreed with their own herds. In New Zealand, however, cattlemen recently ran afoul of the country's strict animal quarantine laws in trying to obtain prized French breeding animals. Now, using sophisticated biological manipulation, they have overcome the problem...
Dartmouth, with a victory over Harvard to its credit, is somewhat better off. The Indians were unbeaten until they fell afoul of the Far West Classic field last week, dropping a 100-75 decision to Washington and a 106-82 contest to Oregon State. Still, the squad managed a 92-82 triumph over an Oregon team coached by former Penn mentor Dick Harter, and entered last night's game at Stanford with a commendable 5-2 record...