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...Depression came early and stayed long. Hubert Horatio Sr., the "town rebel," the Democratic chairman of Republican Spink County who joshed about his wife's being "politically unreliable" (she voted for Harding and Coolidge), the kind of father who sat Junior on his knee to hear Wilson's Fourteen Points and who read Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to the family "at least twice a year," did not bring up his son to espouse pliable convictions...
...constant emission of a powerful radio signal directed toward Jupiter. The scientists examine it (touching it tentatively as the apes did) at a moment when the earth and sun are in conjunctive orbit. They conclude that some form of life on Jupiter may have placed the monolith there and, fourteen months later, an expedition is sent to Jupiter to investigate...
...leaders, the party's top brass assembled to consider an "action program" for a democratic reform of Czechoslovakia that has been brewing during three stormy months of nationwide debates and mounting pressures. The reform harks back half a century in spirit to 1918, when Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points proclaimed the self-determination of peoples and enabled Czechoslovakia to be born as an independent state. This time, Czechoslovakia was announcing its own self-determination-a determination to regain control of its destiny and shuck off the worst features of an alien Communist system...
...things aren't all bad for Harvard. Fourteen lettermen will be in uniform for the first game, and the team is strong and deep in the midfield and on defense...
...Fourteen matches--including the Greater Boston Tournament, the Easterns, and the New England Championships--have been scheduled for play in the chilly North...