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Stephenson was a starting end before his injury in the Holy Cross game, but replacement Pat Young has done such a superb job that Yovicsin is loath to move him back. Stephenson will probably play on the Minuteman line Saturday...
...Congresses, indicated that it was considerably more than that. Young Russian dancers, ballet students and just plain fans crowded to the stage at evening's end and clapped until the lights were turned off. One source of amazement to the Russians, accustomed to illustrious but superannuated dancers loath to abandon the footlights, was the extreme youth of the Balanchine company: the youngest boy is 15, and there are four girls under 17, accompanied by their mothers. "Balanchine likes them young," explained an American to the curious. "They're more pliable...
...colleges. By the same token, rejections were more heartbreaking than ever. Columbia and Radcliffe reported that 85%-90% of all applicants were perfectly qualified; there was simply no more room. Except for Columbia College, which aims to raise enrollment by 60% to 4,000, the top colleges are loath to expand...
Gain & Loss. U.S. Steel's 13-man executive committee concluded that extreme modernization was needed to meet the extreme competition, and that a general price rise was the way to finance it. Given the conservative nature of the industry. Chairman Roger Blough and the committee were loath to add to Big Steel's $893 million debt or to cut its standard $3 yearly dividend, which would have gravely depressed its stock. But within and without the steel industry, there were profound doubts that such a price rise would really have brought U.S. Steel the benefits it anticipated...
Carnegie is currently scouting all kinds of educational problems that other givers are loath to touch. It is deep in "continuing education" for everyone from frustrated housewives to jobless young Negroes. By financing research in programmed learning, it hopes to set standards in a wildly burgeoning field. And it enthusiastically supports Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner's Center for Cognitive Studies, a field that Gardner hopes will discover the secrets of the human learning process and give important insights into mental disorders...