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Alex Haegler made both Crimson goals. The first was a second period penalty kick which oozed its way through the goalie's legs. The second was a sensational 30 foot shot after a pass from Marv Weiss. Haegler drove it high into the left corner of the cage to break a 1 to 1 deadlock, midway in the final quarter...
...France, before Van Gogh had succumbed to the mental horrors which caused him to threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...
Died. Tom Reece, 80, who compiled a world record "break" in English billiards of 499,135 points (1907) after five weeks' faultless use of the "anchor stroke" (i.e., the cue ball caroms off the red and white balls jammed in a corner pocket, and rolls back to its original position for another shot); in Lancing, England. After Reece's marathon, the game's rules were revised to bar more than 25 consecutive anchor strokes, cutting Reece's best break under the new rules to 1,151 points...
...Salzburg Seminar in American Studies is one of the few rays of hope in the gloom of world tension and misunderstanding. It is a real, positive and dynamic force the effect of which has been felt in every corner of free Europe. Its prestige on the continent is revealed by even the most cursory examination into the intensity of the competition among European intellectuals for the opportunity to attend one of its sessions...
This basic process still goes on. In the last ten years, an airborne migration of one-third of a million Puerto Ricans has invaded New York and jammed Harlem to the last mean, overcrowded corner of its last mean, cold-water flat. The school system still creaks under the unexpected strain of this new and wrenching load. The financial and legal difficulties involved in condemning property and building new schools are staggering. So is the task of fitting the newcomers into their strange new world. More than a thousand teachers, for instance, have learned Spanish simply to be able...