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...dedicated summer-school students at Yale University's Shakespeare Institute was none other than Eugene R. Black, 58 (TIME, June 25), taking an academic breather from his globe-hopping job as president of the world's best-heeled lending agency, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (capital: $9 billion). Lounging under a campus elm, Scholar Black said: "Shakespeare had great knowledge of human nature, economics and politics . . . Often, knowledge of these subjects comes in handy today...
Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...
...victory was particularly significant, for in an earlier meeting this year the freshmen barely edged the Huskies, 5 to 4. In what should prove to be another breather for the powerful Yardlings, they will face a weak Tufts team this Saturday at 4 p.m. on Watson Rink. The competition will become somewhat stiffer next Tuesday, however, when the Crimson plays Dartmouth...
Adlai Stevenson halted his political tour of the Northwest long enough for a two-day breather last week at snowbound Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Washington's Mt. Hood. On his last day he and five friends ventured out for a quick tour of the area in a Sno-Cat tractor. Half a mile from the lodge, the tractor suddenly crashed over the brink of a 35-ft. snow canyon, turned completely over, dented its aluminum top and landed on its tracks on a snowbank. By great good luck, nobody was scratched...
...varsity hockey team faces another mid-week breather tomorrow, a tune-up for the important final game of the season against Boston College on Saturday. A Tufts sextet that was badly beaten (13-3) by the Crimson in December will play a 4 p.m. game at the Watson Rink...