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...nuisances is the swimming requirement. Every year several students wind up on probation because they can't navigate the IAB pool twice, and there is always the threat that a student won't be allowed to graduate because he cannot swim fifty yards. The swimming requirement has been a bother too long both for students and administrators, and it should be abolished...
Tilt. Devaney's recruiting coups have done little to endear him to rival coach es, who grumble that Nebraska is "long on finances and short on academics.' That kind of criticism doesn't bother the pro scouts. Devaney already has furnished the pros with twelve players, and this year's crop of Cornhuskers is the most attractive yet. Murmured one awestruck scout, watching Nebraska take the field: "When they run out there, you can see the field tilt...
Hall can sit through the same scene twenty times in one afternoon, and "see" each scene for the first time, as an audience. He can pick up the key changes, and the falseness in the inflections and pauses, and the actor begins again. "Does that word bother you? Why?" he will...
...performance of the Democratic leadership during the battle can only be described as disgraceful. Unable to come up with a realistic alternative of their own to the sales tax (Democratic leaders did not even bother to release their own program from the House Ways and Means Committee because it was certain to be defeated), they took the negative tack of attacking the governor's programs. How the bitter-end opposition of Donahue, unannounced gubernatorial candidate, has accomplished anything but to better Volpe's chances for reelection is difficult...
Virtually discarded is the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship signed with great hope by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in January 1963. "Ça sera fini [it will be ended]," sniffed De Gaulle contemptuously some months ago. This hardly bothers the West Germans, who have seen the treaty's value dwindle. The Germans realize that they are the only nation in the Western alliance with unresolved border problems, hence the only nation likely to use "nukes" in passion. What does bother them are the recent blunt remarks attributed to De Gaulle that he is now dead set against Bonn...