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...Harvard and men of Yale find in the occasion of their annual meeting the expression of a sort of national spirit more intimate than political celebrations because it springs from the dearer associations of youth. No truly national festivities are prepared for and enjoyed with more enthusiasm than the Harvard-Yale football game. The great recessional is on, but even into the excited talk of this football game there come confidently the speculations on the next game. And the past mingles with the present in assuring the future happy meetings of Harvard and Yale...
...whose warmth and charm would have shone in almost any field of life. She has taught in public school and performed a Mozart piano concerto and read Peter and the Wolf with the Boston Symphony. Says one Bostonian who knows her well: "There isn't anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good." But public life has not been kind to Joan Kennedy. Its wounds can be seen in the puffy eyes, the exaggerated makeup, the tales of alcoholism. Today she is a sadly vulnerable soul and an unknown factor in her husband's electoral equation...
What has gone wrong? A major hand-.cap is the strength of the German mark, which gained 25% in value against the dollar during the past two years. That makes German goods dearer on the world market and cuts into corporate profits. The steel industry has been hurt by Japanese competitors, and the textile industry finds itself priced out of many traditional overseas markets. One consequence: capital investment is drying...
...this week's cover story on housing concludes, the single-family house-that symbol of the old American Dream-is becoming dearer and dearer to buy. No one knows that better than our correspondents, most of whom are transferred from one bureau to another on an average of every three years. Thus they are almost continually in the escalating housing market and find it easy to empathize with other frustrated homeseekers...
...assemblage--an aging, decimated group, decked out in faded gray uniforms--that the sons of Confederate survivors be admitted into the Association, so that it could live on after its current members' imminent deaths. "They are the legitimate transmitters of the aims, doctrines and principles which we held dearer than life," he said; they would glorify the memory of Confederates "who imperiled all in the defense of home, in the cause of truth, in the maintenance of right, in the support of freedom...