Word: eight
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...traditional Republican heartland between the Mississippi and the Rockies, Republicans lost eight House seats, two Senate places, at least two governorships (Nebraska is still in doubt). High on the list of causes: the political unpopularity of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Taking over in 1953, Benson inherited a farm-policy mess that saw prices slumping badly while the Government poured billions into the farm economy. Trying to reverse the policy of farm government-by-handout, Benson was blamed when the agricultural recession continued. By this year, when the farm economy dramatically improved (TIME, May 12), it was too late...
...Repsher '61 stood down in a darkened corner of the practice field next to a hulking Stadium wall. Fifty-five yards away Bruce B. McIntyre '61 was methodically booming the ball up into the blackness. Every third or fourht kick would sail over Repsher's head. One went eight yards...
Even this elementary form of crystalball gazing may have its hazards, for Yovicsin refuses to write off either of the bottom two teams as potentially dangerous. In fact, he claims that on a given Saturday any of the Ivy eight could still beat any of the others...
...eight Masters are cooperating in the creation of Quincy," Bullitt emphasized. "The Eighth House is an extension of the present system, and within its tradition. No upperclassmen who applies to Quincy and fails to gain admission will be penalized in his own House...
...Western Cultural History and Literature has nominated Martha Streiff '61. Extending professional courtesy to other college humor publications, the CRIMSON has permitted the Columbia Jester to nominate Priscilla Bowden '61. Also, the Yale Daily News sent a special telegram request last night that Miss Myra Kriegel, one of the eight experimental New Haven co-eds, be considered. From as far away as the University of Colorado nominations have come in. Miss Marilyn Kelly of CU has been nominated by the Flatiron, a frequently banned local humor magazine...