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After Harvard's victory Saturday and Princeton's surprising loss to Colgate, Harvard's chances of finishing well up in the Ivy League standings are looking brighter all the time...
...heavily in such events as gymnastics, Greco-Roman wrestling and canoeing. No such upset is likely in the 1968 Olympics, which begin next week in Mexico City. Though the competition will be tougher than ever, with a record 7,226 athletes from 119 countries, U.S prospects have never looked brighter, particularly in the major Olympic sports-track and field, and swimming. Says Coach Payton Jordan of his track and field squad: "It's the greatest team we've ever...
...convinced in a lot of ways that he shouldn't choose the white schools. Teachers and students could make it pretty miserable for pioneering black students. If that did not give them the idea, employers and merchants could subtly let black parents know that their economic future would be brighter if their children "chose" the black schools...
Using the "survival level" (by government definition, the income necessary to keep a family going for a year) to define poverty, things start to look a little brighter. In the central Alabama Black Belt region, it means that the white families (with an average annual income of about $2500) get above the poverty line. But in the ten Black Belt counties where the average income for a black family is less than $600 less than half the "survival level"--a disturbing conclusion is obvious. Either there is something grotesquely wrong with the statistics, or else thousands of American families have...
...Brighter Day. The conference simply brushed the Cohn-Bendit walkout aside. Said Italy's Umberto Marzocchi, the occasional chairman (the anarchists' anti-authoritarian philosophy, of course, would have made any more permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They are deluded." The anarchists finally agreed on one thing: that the conference had been a grand success. They proposed to meet again in Paris in 1971 to celebrate the centenary of the Paris Commune. In hopes for better days ahead, of course. "When capitalism crumbles, Communism crumbles with it," mused Maurice...