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...Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...
...credit side of the balance were good teamwork on a day that made spectacular playing difficult, and much improved tackling. On the debit was an injury to South African graduate student Derek Henderson that will put him out for the rest of the season with a displaced cartilege and ripped ligaments...
...borrowed more than was covered by reserves, were thus in debt to the Federal Reserve and badly pinched for money. Since then the banks have been building up reserves until they briefly edged over into the plus column by $222 million in mid-January before swinging back into the debit column again by $368 million...
...looks stronger than last year's injury-riddled squad which nonetheless swept through its season undefeated. Bolstered by several outstanding members of last year's undefeated freshman team, plus the return to form of Joel Cohen, the varsity has strengthened several of last year's weak events. On the debit side, however, the team lacks a good pole vaulter, shot putter, or broad jumper. This may create the possibility of an Indian sweep in these events...
...House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday, the initiation of a mid-term vacation, and the institution of the Rides Service, all worthwhile achievements. Unfortunately, the mismanaged reports and the concrete reforms did not constitute the sum of Council activity. There were a number of items on the debit side which can be chalked up largely to the political nature of the body and its own uncertainty as to its powers and functions...