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Harvard has the second-fewest number of lettermen returning in the Ivy League--15. (Princeton has just 14.) As a result, Coach John Yovicsin wil be counting heavily on his newcomers. And with so many of them, there can be little doubt that this year's squad will be a lot different from last year's. Probably better...
Feeding the Poor. Israel's most crucial immediate problem was to feed, find jobs for and govern the Arabs in the occupied territories. The problem was least difficult where people were fewest-in the wastes of Sinai and the heights of Syria. Two-thirds of the inhabitants had trekked from Syria's captured sectors to the safety of Damascus. The city of El Quneitra (pop. 10,000) was a ghost town, its shops shuttered, its deserted streets patrolled by Israelis on house-to-house searches for caches of arms and ammunition. The hills echoed/with explosions as Israeli sappers...
...been issued to park patrolmen in 1964, muggings dropped by 30% in Manhattan's Central Park, by 40% in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The lesson was not lost; four high-crime precincts were then quickly scooterized. In a recent two-month period, those areas reported the fewest crimes in New York...
...late Hugh Gaitskell. When Gaitskell died, Brown was the logical choice for the leadership, but quickly ran into competition from Harold Wilson. Wilson finally beat out Brown in what Laborites quipped was less a contest of favorites than a tally of which man had made the fewest enemies...
...fewest suicides in America and Northern Europe take place in December, the most in April and May. No one knows why April is the crudest month-perhaps because someone who is depressed to start with feels lonelier and more out of things than ever, when the rest of the world is elated by spring, perhaps because of frustrated sexual stirrings or nostalgia for happier times...