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THIS FALL KING JIMMY chose Alfred Kahn, a curious cross between the court jester and the court sage, to serve as chairman of his Council on Wage and Price Stability and Adviser to the President. Thus far Kahn has engaged in witty wordplay with his inimitable foe--inflation--and found it doesn't succumb to his funnies as readily as his other, more human audiences. Since the Vietnam war inflation has gained an increasingly prominent position on the roster of the nation's problems--the Consumer Price Index indicates that prices have doubled in the past eleven years. And unless...
George Jackson, who is working on the club with DiNicola, said he would like to see Harvard field an intercollegiate boxing team "if the interest is there." Both of them stressed that physical conditioning is the boxer's paramount concern, as well as his formidable foe...
Number five Wendy Sonnabend also swept her Williams foe without allowing ten points in any one game...
...phones. On the seas and in the skies, the enemy is tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
Becky Tung, bothered by a bum knee, nonetheless managed to rule the central court position and take her match in three games. Tung stepped into position efficiently, held the shot, and forced foe Liz Toomlin to stay constantly on the defensive...