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Boas was in a near-hopeless position in his third game but refused to resign. Playing skillfully and with determination for over seven hours until 2 a.m., Boas eventually forced his opponent to lose the advantage and agree to a draw...
...roots must settle for the branches. Thus, in nations that our textbooks call totalitarian, strict controls obtain concerning press and TV, intellectual discussion and public debate. These societies are like bad gardeners who spend whole days out in the hot sun pruning bushes, doing their best to cut down hopeless growths of undesired ideologies, because they do not yet have skillful means for poisoning the soil...
...most surprised the world about the latest Middle East war is the astonishing transformation of the Arab fighting force-indeed of the Arab psyche-that it seems to imply. In truth, the change is not as sudden as it may seem; the Arab forces were not really as hopeless as they appeared to be in 1967, or probably as able as they look today. Nonetheless, it does seem that a new Arab spirit is emerging, and the darkest irony is that the chief catalyst of that change is the Arab nations' principal enemy...
Although the Department soundly defeated Bowles' bid for tenure, Leontief said at a press conference yesterday he does not think the situation for Marxist economists at Harvard is hopeless...
...Football. The hopeless Pats take on the Dolphins in Miami. For New England masochists. CH. 4. 1 p.m. Color. Live...