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...were ambushed and killed. Same day the Communists sabotaged the Singapore train 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, killed five passengers and injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral, began honing their parangs (long knives) for anti-Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since Oct. 1): 131 Reds killed, 19 captured. But it is uphill work, against a crafty, concealed enemy. This week...
Crimson soccer coach Bruce Munro faces his toughest assignment of the season today when his varsity soccer team goes to Amherst to take on the Lord Jeffs at 2 p.m. But Munro is ready with a new wrinkle to bolster the team's hitherto weak attack. The innovation will have to be good though, because Amherst has a 5 and 1 record and the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League's leading scorer...
...have seen this athletic program vitiate the most elementary standards of honesty and right conduct . . . ravage the morale of our student body." The faculty admitted "our share of responsibility . . . for having failed hitherto to halt the insidious growth of these evils." But henceforth, it announced, it intended to take over full control of the entire athletic program-"a beneficial but distinctly subordinate activity of the college...
...past 100 years, he turned to the other side of the record. "From 1870 to 1890, the high-water mark of British industrial expansion . . . had been reached, and the competition of the United States and Europe was just beginning to be felt. But the lack of serious competition hitherto had bred a feeling of overconfidence and satisfaction . . . The result was a conservative attitude towards technical change and, particularly in the older industries, neglect of scientific research . . . It is significant that the history of production engineering after 1890 is almost entirely confined to the United States...
...amazing amount of apathy was evident in the softball picture as the Summer School League swung into the second week of play. All games played showed at least one side operating shorthanded. The most logical explanation was the obvious superiority of the rampaging Hollis-Stoughton team which had hitherto crushed all opposition. Manager Art Amsie of the Stoughtons, in a determined effort to recreate interest in the pennant race, split up his team temporarily and gave many of his regulars a rest in the games that Stoughton played this week, both of them against Holworthy...