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Wilson this year will try what he describes as a "team defense," which means sort of a collapsing man to man zone. Anyway, it will have to be damn good. Princeton, last year's champion, and second place Penn, are really fine basketball teams and should fight it out among themselves for the title. Brown, too, appears beyond the rest of the league, though not in a class with Penn or Princeton...
Died. Harvey Slocum, 75. tough-talking U.S. engineer who bossed the construction of India's giant (740 ft. high) and all-but-completed Bhakra Dam, a self-educated ex-laborer who helped build Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and whose overriding ego-he called himself "the best damn dam builder in the world" -was matched only by his professional skill; of a heart attack; in Nangal, India...
Seeing The Devil's Eye makes one wish Ingmar Bergman would stop playing with his damn symbols for a while and just tell a story. If he had been willing to do so, this film might have been the funniest comedy of the year. As it stands, it is merely a confused tale, that never says enough humorously or seriously to make it worth the bother...
...With surprising candor, two of the county's top lawmen gave the real reason why N.A.A.C.P. Leader Bryant was jailed. "Bryant puts himself in the class of the white people," said Sheriff Clyde Simmons. Said Police Chief Guy: "We're trying to rook him in on the damn thing somewhere...
Most people don't know a damn thing about sound. It's a shame, too, because their misconceptions lead them to purchase bad hi-fi equipment. The man in the street will tell you a response from 20-20,000 cps is the test of a good set. The fact is that even the worst Japanese amplifier will advertise this rating. Frequency response merely tells the potential buyer that the unit can, under ideal conditions, reproduce all audible tones...