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They play soccer at Penn on a narrow, choppy field out behind the university steam plant, among various factories and under the main railroad artery to Philadelphia. There, in the worst playing condition imaginable, the varsity soccer squad staked its claim to the Ivy League title by defeating Penn, 2 to 0, last Saturday...
Thus the President put under one roof the responsibility for the space-engine program, which lags two to five years behind the Soviet Union's. Von Braun & Co. will have responsibility for developing the interim Saturn program and possibly NASA's longer-range F-1 Rocketdyne single-chamber engine of 1,500,000 Ibs. thrust, and beyond that, the giant Nova with 6,000,000 Ibs. of thrust. The U.S., said Ike at his Augusta press conference, would spend on the civilian space effort next year "something more" than the current $500 million a year...
...Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment of Cook County Republican Chairman Francis X. Connell: "I don't think he's changed anybody's mind on the question of the nominee for President." While he found Governor Rockefeller "completely disarming," said Connell, the organization is behind Nixon...
...demonstration, decided that they had had enough of that "William Tell stuff." To Motel Keeper Faulkner's relief, they made plane reservations for New Orleans, bought their own plane tickets, paid Faulkner $32 for long-distance calls, and went away, leaving two more dead soldiers behind...
...behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out. Let moviemakers find sinister backdrops elsewhere...