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...election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition," and concluded: "Since the actual responsibility of the Marshals is quite small, and since the House system has changed the make-up of the "old Harvard" to a very considerable degree, it would seem best to remove the anachronism of Class Marshals in favor of a purely House-elected body." Several University administrators seemed to receive the idea favorably...
...Conn., June 7--This year's varsity eight, the best crew in Harvard history, is a clear favorite to end Yale's five-year winning streak in the four-mile row on the Thames River near New London this Saturday. Indeed the Crimson could sweep the river for the first time since 1951 with victories in the varsity, J.V, and freshman races...
...last of these complaints came last week, with passionate and justified indignation, from Marcello Orano, 56, once a successful author and one of Italy's popular heroes, now with no claim to fame save as Europe's best known and worst treated leper. One of a family prominent in education and government, Orano was a dashing cavalier who served as a colonial official in Africa, wrote novels (three of them made into prewar movies), had a bewildering succession of marital relationships, and once turned Moslem...
...profits still fall far short of the cash needed for expansion. U.S. Steel alone had to borrow $600 million in the last five years. As for inflation, Blough considers congressional suggestions of wage and price controls "sheer nonsense." Nor does he agree with McDonald's argument that the best way to fight inflation is to cut prices, starting with steel. He cites the fact that U.S. Steel cut prices $1.25 a ton in 1948 when inflation had pushed living costs up 14.5% the year before. Costs kept climbing so fast that the price cut had to be canceled within...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel disinfected, but still given the best movie treatment yet of any of his works...