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Stories like this keep raising the perennial Cambridge question, "Are girls smarter?" Few Harvard students will admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where there was a girl who "couldn't even read numbers." The girls, on the other hand, explained their consistently better records by claims to sheer intellectual power...
...April 18. If the varsity can get by the Cadets, the outlook will brighten considerably. Of course, Yale has already produced a 48.0 quarter by Jim Stack, a 1:53.5 half-mile by Tommy Carroll, and a 3:14.7 mile relay, but it's spring and anything can happen...
...round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have had to pay Romney the sincerest form of flattery by bringing out their own compact cars. For the story of Bible-quoting George Romney's amazing rise-and what will happen to him and his company now-see BUSINESS, The Dinosaur Hunter...
...during the absence of Foster Dulles. With Congress recessing and rushing out of Washington, the President scheduled a light week. He held his 155th press conference, ranged from summit talk to the possibility of using Texas cabbages to feed out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky and Pennsylvania ("I happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering of Governors calling at the White House to discuss proposed changes in unemployment-insurance laws. He chaired a meeting of the National Security Council. Then he hopped onto a helicopter for Gettysburg...
...Three," he says. "But we have greater freedom and flexibility of operation. We're leaner. We're harder. We're faster. I've seen halfbacks, out in the clear, trip and fall flat with a sure touchdown in sight. That sort of thing could happen to anybody." Then Romney breaks into a wide grin: "But I don't intend to let it happen...