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...There are some sports the Russians still can't fathom. They play terrible tennis, they swim like drain plugs." Don't be shocked if a few drain plugs win gold medals at the summer Olympic Games at Tokyo...
...Soviet Drain Plug Ivan Karetnikov and Fellow Plug Georgij Prokopenko led the world last year (1963) in the breast stroke, an Olympic event, ranking first and second. The Russians also placed men in the first ten in world rank in three other Olympic events. The drain plugs won't be in Tokyo just for the bath...
ANOTHER ONE DOWN THE BRAIN DRAIN, screamed a headline in London's Evening News. Within four days, 16 leading scientists suddenly announced they were leaving Britain for the U.S., thus joining an alarming flight of key talent, which last year cost Britain 17% of its new crop of scientific Ph.D.s. Of these, about half settled...
...development of the University over the past two decades explains the failure of the potential of the Houses to realize Lowell's ambitions. Students have become increasingly specialized in their academic interests; they spend more time in Departments, libraries, and labs than they did in Lowell's era. The drain of undergraduate scientists, journalists, and artists into other parts of the University has seriously limited the variety of students in the Houses. As the Loeb has grown, for example, House drama societies have suffered, and so, as a result, have the Houses...
...West's economies are kept rolling along by money from millions of individual investors, and in the postwar years most of it has come from the U.S.-a big factor in the drain of gold from American coffers. Europe, despite its boom, has failed to generate enough investment capital to meet even its own needs, let alone to play its long-overdue role in world financing...