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Before the hockey season began, a member of the Williams sextet remarked that everyone at Williamstown was pointing to the Harvard game as the big one. To the Crimson, however, today's contest at 4 p.m. at Watson is only a mid-week breather between important defenses of its Ivy League title...
Actually, few economists think it possible for the economy to keep rising with the same speed of 1955. But though the U.S. may rest to digest what it has already produced-and the breather may stir up cries of "recession"-the forecasts for 1956 are impressive by any standard. For 1956, Administration economists predict a total G.N.P. of $403 billion, 4% higher than 1955. Personal income is expected to jump to around $310 billion, about half the 1955 advance, while savings hold steady at the 1955 rate. Though industrial production will not equal igss's 11 % jump...
...like nothing better than playing Harvard in 1957," said Brisco Inman, Centre's Athletic Director. He agreed with members of the Crimson's 1921 team that Centre would make a fine non-Ivy League "breather" for the varsity, and that the game would boost the H.A.A.'s sagging home ticket sales...
...anyone expecting a slaughter in the Stadium will probably be disappointed. This Bucknell team is no pushover, no mid-season breather. Although it has lost three of its five games, it boasts a strong offense, averaging better than 20 points a contest...
...Yardling hockey team had a breather Watson rink yesterday, after beating previously undefeated Dartmouth on Saturday, 3 to 1. The breather gave the freshmen a 19-1 victory--their thirteenth straight...