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Last December at about this time the Crimson hockey varsity played host to Brown, fully expecting to win without too much trouble and breeze on to the Ivy League crown. Instead, it had to fight back from a 4-1 deficit to eke out a tie, and only clinched the title with a victory in Providence later in the season...
...millions, primitive Indians eke out brief existences in the backlands of Latin America, cut off from the 20th century-or the 15th century, for that matter-by forbidding mountains, matted jungle and a towering cultural barrier. Their national languages, whether Spanish or Portuguese, are unknown tongues. Most of the Indians cannot even read or write their own dialects, and many tribes have no formal written language at all. Now, thanks to a private, U.S.-based outfit called the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the Indians are learning at least two of the three...
...Little Land. One reason is Mexico's overenthusiastic land reform, whereby most of the big haciendas have been atomized into thousands of tiny, four-to twelve-acre ejidos and given to peasants. The bite-sized plots often prove so uneconomical that the peasant can barely eke out a living, let alone buy modern farm equipment. Nature, too, seems to be working against the farmer. Less than 75 million acres, or about one-sixth of Mexico's generally dry, mountainous terrain, are arable, and on those cultivated acres water is in steadily diminishing supply...
Brown managed to eke out a one-point victory earlier in the season, but the varsity should be able to take the Bears tonight. The only real threat Brown owns is their captain, Gene Barth, who is averaging 17.6 points a game and ranks third in the Ivy League. Barth hit 27 points in the last Harvard game, scoring again and again with his deadly set shot. If Harvard's coach Floyd Wilson took his team out of a zone defense as he did against Princeton, the Crimson would probably have an easier time defeating the Bears...
...industry is in a continuing and deepening financial crisis. A few of the smaller trunk lines without heavy competition on their routes make a nice profit, but some of the biggest lines are losing money flying half-empty jets across the country. The industry as a whole manages to eke out only a paltry 2% or so on invested capital. While the causes are many and complicated, most of the losses could be wiped out by one asset: more passengers. Last week, on several fronts, the airlines were busy revolutionizing the old concept of air travel with a new pattern...