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Stockton's temper was just as evil, but he controlled it better. He didn't explode, he boiled. And so did his game. He played to a tempo, tuning it, gaging it, then throwing it out of kilter to come in for the big one. He was a heavy hitter who didn't rush his points, or throw-away shots with chancy acrobatics. He played like a wolf stalking his prey, always the challenged, never the challenger. And he was 17 before anyone his age really could put up that challenge...
...Chem 20 grading curve--significantly out of kilter with normal Harvard grading--illustrates one way in which Harvard reinforces restrictive medical school admissions policies. In view of the tremendous need for well trained and dedicated physicians and health care specialists, the University should encourage, not discourage, pre-medical studies. The completion of the new undergraduate science center provides ample laboratory and lecture facilities; there are enough graduate students to act as qualified section leaders. There is no longer cause--if in fact there ever was--for Harvard to attempt to limit the size of a course that remains mandatory...
...last week, Liebling's boss, Treasury Secretary John Connally, went before the congressional Joint Economic Committee and dismissed it as merely a working paper. But Connally has admitted publicly that 5% unemployment "is probably the best we can do this year without further throwing the economy out of kilter...
...sticky that the Council of Economic Advisers, in its report out last week, talks of the traditional 4%-unemployment goal as if it were Utopian. Treasury Secretary John Connally has said that 5% "is probably the best we can do this year without further throwing the economy out of kilter." At present, 5,000,000 Americans are officially listed as without jobs, the largest epidemic of idleness since the early '60s. Another 770,000 are unemployed but not counted in the 6% rate because they have become too discouraged to look for work. Unemployment is now 8.1% among Viet...
Quiet Nonbelligerence. Washington was worried that the Russians might provide additional armaments not so much to bolster the Egyptians as to panic Israel into trying to wheedle additional arms out of the U.S., thereby throwing both the arms balance and the American peace effort out of kilter. Sure enough, in the wake of the treaty, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yitzhak Rabin last week inquired into the status of an Israeli request for an additional $500 million in economic aid and military supplies. Washington has so far held back on approving the request. With some justification, Jerusalem fears that...