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Despite the loss of the Ivy title, the season did not end Saturday, and from here on the outlook is much brighter for the Crimson. The remaining four games will be tough ones, but only the Princeton contest is questionable. If the team can forget about Dartmouth, they should be able to win the only really important game on the schedule-Yale...
...background to indicate that this year's class could be so different from its immediate predecessors. Admissions Dean Fred Glimp says that while its median college board score is perhaps a point or so higher than '65 there is no reason to claim that '66 is substantially, if any, brighter than other classes currently at Harvard. But if they possess no transcendental intellectual skills, the freshmen certainly lack the inhibitions that featured previous Yardlings. Dean Glimp and Freshman Dean Von Stade report that the seminar-coffee hours this year, based on reading that was sent out during the summer, were...
...dean of freshmen was pleased to find them "well lopsided." The dean of admissions glowed over their "fascinating mix of talents and interests." Brighter, taller, leaner and more bespectacled than ever, 1,216 freshmen marched into Harvard last week...
...cuts in the face of deficit spending would be difficult to justify." Boston Banker Richard Chapman thought that "it's wrong to raise doubts about the fiscal sanity of the country and the soundness of the dollar." Besides, the cheering fact is that the economy looks a bit brighter than a few weeks ago. Said Inland Steel's Chairman Joseph Block: "We are not in any economic crisis which might favor the Government's busting right in with a quick across-the-board tax cut." Some key barometers of business released last week-industrial production, housing starts...
...Fear. As the countdown continued on the radio, the time dragged; a quarter-moon showed intermittently in the cloud-patched sky. At last the countdown dropped to seconds: ten, nine, eight . . . Finally, at exactly 11 p.m., the bomb exploded. The sky over Hawaii flared dazzling white, seemingly even brighter than noonday. The light turned pale lime green, then a delicate pink that darkened swiftly to a hideous meaty red. After seven minutes, the glow was gone, leaving the blue-black Pacific night. But when the moon next showed through the clouds, it was tinted an unnatural yellow...