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...despite the depressing statistics that will appear in the record book, the team still has a reason to climb to the fourth floor of the IAB for practice every afternoon. Although the squad has lost 16 out of 18 contests, Harvard (1-2 in the Ivies) is, amazingly enough, still contending for the Ivy League title...
...Reserve Board Member Henry Wallich: "By the time you've made a dent in Detroit's unemployment, you've sent inflation through the roof for everyone." In effect, Reagan is betting he will not have to make that switch, but if the unemployment rate continues to climb, he may have no real choice...
...serious, though, that the editors didn't spend a good deal of time socializing. Indeed, the next fall (when sophomore Roosevelt began his climb up the Crimson heirarchy with his election as secretary), the Crimson decided to move its office to the brand new Union. There were only two worries, FDR recalled later. "There was much fear expressed that the new quartrers would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old Sanctum, and also that no punch-nights could be held in the Union. Both fears proved groundless...
...lave died out 70 million years ago. With a brief foreword by Attenborough, whose unpretentiousness has an eloquence all its own, the footage of an extremely ugly fish Becomes oddly moving. The coelacanth has limblike fins, and it is likely that one of its ancestors was the first to climb onto he land, 350 million years...
...society meet." The narrative is full of the social observation that has marked her earlier work. Both Jean Harris and Dr. Tarnower are, she says, "social advancement, to put it simply. It's crude way to put it, but we may as well say it... This is a steady climb to richer and more famous people." Throughout the narrative, she maintains an active antipathy for Dr. Tarnower, describing him at one point as "reptillian." After finding fault with his diet and his home, among other things, Mrs. Trilling asserts outright, "The bad aesthetics of a society matter...