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This year there will be a five-month lag between the team selections in June and the actual Olympic games in November. Macdonald suggests that, immediately following the trials, "the Olympic coaches should get the whole works together and set up a training camp in Florida or California. Otherwise, those selected might very easily get out of shape during the summer," he said...
...country in modern times, if ever, has advanced so rapidly as Saudi Arabia. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it has caught up with 700 years' lag in one generation. If there are still a hundred or so years to be caught up with, what is needed from a responsible reporter giving millions of Americans the only picture they have of the country is praise for the enormous accomplishments that have been made and encouragement for the difficult metamorphoses still ahead...
...explain this? I am sure that the improvement is much greater than can be explained by the rise in numbers seeking entry to institutions of higher learning (about two-thirds since pre-war). I am indeed aware that Harvard's lag in the acceptance of students vis-a-vis the national rise is an important consideration. Any policy of the future must take account of the possibilities of improving quality through absorbing a smaller percentage of additional recruits than the nation. (It has been shown, incidentally, that despite a doubling of college enrollment in recent years the average...
Many legislators and historians have criticized this time lag between events and their subsequent public release, especially when the events concerned such secret dealings as the various war conferences between the allied powers. Not until this year, however, has any one criticized the Division for the accuracy of the material which it did issue. When it released records of the Yalta conference in the spring, many people, including Sir Winston Churchill, asserted that serious mistakes had been made. And less than a month ago a dismissed member of the Division, Donald M. Dozer, publicly stated that efforts were being made...
...Topp, molesworth is an old lag at st custard's, and he finds it easy pappy if you can stand the pi-jaw (magisterial yatata). In case it all gets too much, nigel offers the molesworth daydream service ("Are you fatigued? Bored, rundown . . .? Help yourself to a MOLESWORTH DAYDREAM. Simple, easy to operate. No gadgets . . ."). Best among the catalogue of daydreams offered is the one in which the whole school is swept away by the grate st custard's flood, but molesworth and prudence entwhistle, the beautiful under-matron, survive in a rowboat ("how peaceful it is upon...