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...Moore has this winning formula: "In my book, a player isn't polished until he can play just as well defensively as offensively." So Moore stresses team balance and tight defense instead of trying to build a team around a high-scoring superstar. The Dukes offer a well-knit offense of three players: 6-ft. 7½-in. Junior Dick Ricketts, who has averaged 16.8 points a game this season; 6-ft. 3-in. Sophomore Si Green (13.4 points); and 6-ft. 7½-in. Senior and Captain Jim Tucker (13 points...
Stitch in No Time. A 141-needle knitting machine for home use has been brought out by the Regina Hand Knitting Machine Co. of Boulder, Colo. The manufacturer claims that the gadget can knit ten times as fast as an individual. Price...
Whether this argument applies to Harvard has frequently been debated; that it completely misses when applied to Radcliffe is certain, however. For the Annex is a small, closely-knit place in which everyone eventually comes to recognize nearly everyone else. Violations of the honor system are usually seen; if the girls do not report each infraction, they do remember them. And there is the undeniable fact that at Radcliffe an honor system is established and has functioned with a moderate degree of success for many years. The most precarious stage in the life of any honor system is its beginning...
Japanese school teachers were liberated by the U.S. occupation from a militarist thought-control system, only to be gulled by the exponents of a worse tyranny. The 500,000-strong Japanese Teachers Union, representing two-thirds of the country's teachers, is noisy, well knit-and dominated by Communists. This week Diet members from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government party produced two bills designed to curb the union's new Communist-line politicking. Unfortunately, the bills seemed to approach the old thought-control methods...
Shawcross emphasizes in his speech that he does not wish to draw parallels with the United States, whose "racial heterogeneity" and geographical situation make the problem of security considerably more complex. Britain has the undoubted security advantage of a closely knit country But besides this, certain safeguards of a customary nature have acted strongly to prevent the development of an inquisitorial type of investigation. There is, for example, the tradition that Parliamentary committees are appointed for only special, necessarily grave investigations. Shawcross believes that the British public would not tolerate an investigating committee with wide powers. Further, there...