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...physician, Chekhov focused on life instead of zeroing in on a desk, a blank piece of paper and some obsessive fantasy or other. As a doctor, he knew that to some degree the patient is the disease. A doctor with a tragic sense is aware that all of his patients will die, even the ones whom he has helped to cure. In the meantime, there is the interminable process of living. Diagnosis is simply a gauge for determining what stage the wasting-away process has reached. Chekhov is a great diagnostician, a man with an immensely vital sense of life...
...despite its 4-12 record in Division I play. Dartmouth played well, refusing to fold in the third period and thoroughly testing Durno with 31 shots, many of them from point-blank range...
...Nixon last week ruled out any new federal taxes, he will probably find himself with at least the $15 billion deficit for fiscal 1972 that he needs to make a dent in unemployment. The budget figures have not yet been fixed, however. Draft chapters circulating in the OMB had blank spaces where some numbers should have been. In one, a wag wrote: " 'A few honest men are better than numbers'-Oliver Cromwell...
Whenever the Government writes a blank check to the housing industry, some sort of scandal is likely to result. Under the Federal Housing Administration's long defunct Section 608 program, builders in the early 1950s ended the postwar shortage of rental housing by erecting half a million apartments. In the process, many builders pocketed millions of dollars of unearned profit from mortgage loans that exceeded the cost of construction. The loans were based on FHA cost estimates, and nobody had told the agency to check on whether its estimates exceeded costs actually incurred. They often did. The upshot...
Cornell skated Harvard off the ice in the first four minutes of the game. While the Big Red fans stood screaming. Cornell took numerous point-blank shots at Durno and grabbed a quick 1-0 lead. A penalty slowed the Red's momentum, and DeMichele broke out of a five-game scoring drought, firing home a perfect pass from Cavanagh to tie the score, 1-1. Cornell struck again at 13:51, but once more Harvard recovered to tie it up. Cavanagh netted the Crimson's goal, faking out a defenseman and Copper on a solo rush. Both tallies came...