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Riding an impressive nine-game win streak Harvard's 14-1 baseball team takes on an unusually strong MIT squad today in a continuation of a long inter-city baseball rivalry...
Poltergeist. The day after the Irvings pleaded guilty, Howard Hughes, the sometimes eerie presence in the case, was rattling around again like a restless poltergeist. He had spent 19 days ensconced in the Hotel Inter-Continental in Managua, Nicaragua, where he may have discussed a link between his Hughes Air West and the country's national airline, and possibly tried to unload two of his mothballed four-engine Convair 880 jets. In another elusively Hughesian airlift he was spirited out of Managua and moved to yet another bank of upper-story suites, this time on the 19th and 20th...
...result, Pompidou is almost assured of a victory that he can flaunt as a strong vote of personal confidence. That will be a valuable asset if, as many observers expect, Pompidou hopes to carve out for himself a role as primus inter pares next October when the ten leaders of the "new Europe" hold their first summit meeting in Paris...
...expected, his appeal of the decision was rejected, though he got some support. The Inter-American Press Association protested and dailies in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and the U.S. joined in with editorial condemnation. Even Lima's independent El Comercio risked the regime's wrath by siding with Beltrán. But the government has obviously been gunning for him; it has already hounded one of his editors into exile and ordered Beltrán's gracious, 300-year-old Lima town house razed in the name of urban renewal...
...Church in America decides to join the National Council of Churches. A 17-member study committee representing both the U.S. Catholic hierarchy and the council has spent two years examining the question. Last week the committee announced its conclusion: the U.S. Catholic Church, which already belongs to eleven statewide inter-church councils, ought to join the national organization. The N.C.C., in trouble with some member denominations for its social action, could use some new blood-and some new money. Its budget is down from nearly $20 million in 1970 to $17.6 million this year. The presence of the more theologically...