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...writing in reply to the CRIMSON article of March 25 regarding Harvard basketball. I sharply disagree with Mr. Cotton's basis for attacking the coaching of Mr. Wilson. After working closely with Mr. Wilson through the entire season, I am confident of Mr. Wilson's competency as a coach as well as his dedication to make basketball a satisfying experience...
...Cotton raises three main criticisms of Mr. Wilson's coaching: (1) that he fails to lead the team, (2) that he hesitates to give individual attention, and (3) that he is unable to communicate with the team...
First, Mr. Cotton contends that Mr. Wilson fails to lead his team in respect to the formulation of starting lineups, substitutions, and a style of play. By the end of December a starting lineup was permanently established despite a pair of injuries and the loss of a key starter. With the exception of Bob Inman's return the lineup remained unchanged through the course of the season. Similarly two particular substitutes, Merle McClung and Al Bornheimer, were regularly rotated with the starters to give them a brief rest and furnish offensive spark...
...both sides. If accepted by individual plebiscites, the union would create a single Arab state of 39 million people with an area as flat as Texas and more than twice its size, and an economy based on the oil of Iraq, the agriculture of Syria, and the industry and cotton of Egypt. The agreement calls for a single political head (almost certain to be Nasser) and a central parliament based on population, which would give Egypt a two-thirds majority...
None of them need have worried. Britain's workers, it turned out, did not cotton to the idea of receiving a mere slip of paper for a week's hard work. The worker must ask in writing to be paid by check before his little brown envelope can be discontinued. Apart from a small group of young workers who consider checks a new status symbol, few workers have signed up. Few wage earners in Britain have ever had checking accounts, and many do not fully understand just how they work; be sides, the average worker has a prejudice...