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...appointment of Fainsod as director this fall, to succeed Professor William L. Langer, is significant since Fainsod is the first real Russian specialist to occupy the position. His predecessors, Kluckhohn and Langer, specialized in cultural anthropology and European history, respectively, with special though only peripheral interest in the Russian field. Fainsod, on the other hand is perhaps the nation's foremost authority on Russian government, and his How Russia is Ruled (No. 11 in the Russian Center services) ranks as the definitive volume in its area...
Competing in the gymkhana, Peter L. V. Hutchinson '63, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, took first in the small sports class, with HMSC President Peter G. Sachs '61 following for a close second in his Porsche 1600. Hutchinson and Sachs turned in the meet's fastest times. William E. Weir '61 placed second in the small touring class with his Volkswagen, guaranteeing the Club its victory...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P-L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
...Devil's Advocate, by Morris L. West. A first-rate religious novel, utterly without peppermint piety, concerning a dying priest who investigates the claims to sainthood of a mysterious World War II deserter...
...LEAGUE STANDINGS W L T PF PAPennsylvania 3 0 0 67 9Yale 3 0 0 54 9Princeton 2 1 0 42 18Dartmouth 1 1 1 9 13Harvard 1 2 0 54 51Cornell 1 2 0 20 59Columbia 1 3 0 43 80Brown...