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Such a policy is consistent with the rest of the Ivy agreement, but by aiming at this consistency, the schools automatically exclude individual participation in certain worthy contests like the East-West Shrine charity game, or strictly amateur all-star soccer or lacrosse matches. This competition is far removed from the "big business" bowl games and the over-emphasis of athletics that accompanies fat gate receipts...
...query began: "I'm typing this while flying on a plane from Johannesburg to Accra. Three days ago I was on the east coast of Africa, in Nairobi. To ' go from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg may seem like a roundabout way, but actually it's the quickest. To fly straight across would have meant hanging around the Belgian Congo for air connections. There is no good east-west trans-Africa air schedule...
...Russia's non-Communist trade. Few Britons believe that this is possible: even a fraction of that amount would involve a drastic change in the world's trading relationship. Yet, undeniably, the vast Soviet offer had raised all Europe's hopes. It made certain that East-West trade will be one of the vital issues...
Twenty years before the American Revolution, George Washington saw the need for East-West water transport up the Potomac Valley; after the war he became president of the Potomac Company, which built canals and locks to bypass falls and shoals in the Potomac River itself. The waterway eventually became the famed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the mid 1800s, its mule-drawn canal boats hauled great tonnages of freight between Washington and Cumberland, Md. But over the next 100 years, the railroads forced it into disuse...
...Manhattan for the fourth annual East-West game of the National Basket ball Association, Master Dribbler Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics (TIME, Dec. 28) sank ten of the East's 14 points in overtime, was named the game's most valuable player. The East...