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Apologists look jealously at SDS, which with a membership one-eigth the size of Young Dems has managed to attract in the past year well over eight times the amount of attention. They say that Young Dems must resign itself to this poor showing because it will never be able to offer the kind of coherent ideology which attracts a dedicated membership. "We're not even a consensus, let alone a point of view," Weiner has said. "Most members identify more with the Democrats than with the Republicans, and that's about...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Young Dems Search for Something Significant to Say | 3/10/1966 | See Source »

Britons are still apt to regard both Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wide Open Species | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Gale led the midfield with three goals, and Pete Palches and Fuzz Steuart each scored one. On the attack Captain Dexter Lewis scored eigth goals, while Larry Coburn and Don Davidoff tallied one apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Drops Two Games to Cornell, Syracuse | 4/20/1955 | See Source »

Dismal schmisal. A lot of people who came down to Lincoln Downs Saturday for opening day said I threw the eigth race. Hell's bells, I almost threw my lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Players Pack Lincoln Downs | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...scored twice in their half of the seventh on two hits, a walk, and an error by the reliable Don Swegan. Still not they pushed over four more tallies in the eigth, sending out Wallace and bringing Norm Wholley in relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holy Cross Stalls Stahlmen In Second Encounter, 8 to 3 | 8/9/1945 | See Source »

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