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Cornell played with the wind in the first of the two five-minute overtime periods and used it to go ahead. A high corner kick from the east corner eluded substitute goalie Jay Beese's grasp and twisted into the goal...
...speaks for a generation of Israelis moving away from the kibbutz and its limited life. Yael's horizons are broader than those of her kibbutz friends. She has been to New York twice visiting relatives. She is curious about the racial riots in the United States and quick to grasp the immensity of the problems underlying them. Already matriculated, Yael has no doubt about going on with her studies, and has decided to spend one year studying in the U.S., probably at Berkeley. Yael's generation is returning to the European of its own accord, demanding higher education...
...spot in the Labor Party by successfully presenting Wilson's unpopular deflationary policies as the only sensible way to deal with the "mess" left over from 13 years of Tory rule. Though self-taught in economics (his education ended at the secondary level), Callaghan has a thorough grasp of world finance, and he explained the necessity of tough measures in a common-sense way that appealed to the Laborites. He is thus invaluable to Wilson as the most effective defender of the government's policies. By a narrow 122,000 votes out of 6,300,000 ballots...
MORE SPEECHES FROM THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WILL BE FOUND IN MONDAY'S SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT gestion, but I do express my alarm at our failure to grasp and grapple with basic administrative problems in our system of justice. One able and and hard-working federal judge was recently moved to say that unless we meet and master these problems, our system of justice, as we know it, will disappear...
...Hornblower backs up, someone called Vic Gatto, had a fine day too. On the third play from scrimmage, Gatto burst up the middle, slipping out of the grasp of one or two second team linemen, then shot into the clear and went all the way, 70 yards, for a score. Second-stringers claim their defensive signals got fouled...