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...hockey varsity will make its Ivy League debut this week-end on a read trip including games with Cornell and Colgate. The Crimson is favored to win both contests, although Cornell, by dint of a strong sophomore contingent, is much improved over last year's team...
Work v. Talent. Marshal Lott is much less flamboyant than even the new Quadros. He began his military career methodically, slogging through military school by dint of grueling hard work. Once he complained to his English-descended father about a brilliant classmate who was always getting the best marks in class. "He has talent," said Cadet Lott. "Yes," said his father, "but if you study hard you will conquer talent...
...terms of their own natural talent, they were a couple of rinkydinks who seemed far more at home in the backwaters of the Class D Eastern Shore League-where they both began their professional baseball careers. But both men turned themselves into competent major-league players by dint of hustle and dedicated study of every detail of their trade. As of last week the two men had parlayed their baseball know-how into the managerial success stories of the 1960 season. In the National League, onetime Second Baseman Daniel Edward Murtaugh, 42, was manager of the pennant-bound Pittsburgh Pirates...
...crisis has been held in abeyance. Whether it will recur after the summit, I don't know." Yet, in Herter's year, the U.S. has strengthened its position in the Middle East, in Communist-menaced Southeast Asia, in Japan, in Latin America, and has even lifted (by dint of presidential diplomacy) Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum...
Chairman of the Committee of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Georgy Zhukov, 51, is a dandified Ukrainian who worked as Pravda foreign correspondent in France and Geneva after World War II; his influence has risen since 1957 by dint of his handling of the people-to-people exchange program; he was the top Soviet official with the Nixon party during much of the Vice President's trip. A harder-line Communist pressagent is Leonid llyichev, fiftyish, head of the agitprop organization set up to indoctrinate worldwide Communist parties, who as Soviet Foreign Office press briefing officer from...