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Taking things seriously is as much a part of Yale as the naked rituals of fraternity initiation. Exaggerated concern and threadbare ceremony have established reputation, the bar and the secret grip as the booty of fraternal subsistence...
...Jersey's Robert Baumle Meyner. He lost ground by a poor showing during a late-summer Midwestern swing, recouped yardage by electing a hand-picked candidate to the Senate and taking firmer grip on once Republican New Jersey counties. Meyner's headache: better-known Eastern Moderate Jack Kennedy...
...invasion of foreign machines (about 1,000,000 a year), such as Italy's Necchi, which ten years ago caught staid old Singer with its slip showing. The new gadgets on Necchi and other machines shrank Singer's sales in the U.S. from its two-thirds grip of the U.S. market to one-third. Now Singer is bouncing back. It says that its Slant-O-Matic, $399.50 in Early American cabinet, can match-sew any foreign make. Soon sister Susie should sew a shirt in seconds...
...faculty meeting last week over Dean Elder's plan to limit Ph.D. study to four years must have come either from aroused protective instincts or from simple misunderstanding. Possibly the various departments suspect in the Dean's proposals a plot to catalyze his present comfortable hold into an iron grip. Or they may think the proposals would really alter the structure of graduate study. Both of these fears should cease...
...Reds. In sharp contrast to these alert, aggressive techniques, the Japanese press has abdicated its responsibility to espouse, attack or even examine the variety of political opinions that are the stuff of democracy. It is in the grip of impartiality gone haywire. Only two of the nation's papers-the daily Communist Akahata (circ. 30,000) and the thrice-monthly Socialist Shakai Shimpo (circ. 80,000)-advance any creed. The rest of the Japanese press has only one policy: to attack the government. The rationalization is that the government is the press's traditional enemy, must be fought...