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Saturday's match, won 7 to 0 by Yale, took the Crimson team completely by surprise. Main factors in the lop-sided Eli win was the Yale course, one of the finest in the world. The greens, much larger than those at Dedham, caused frequent three-putting among the Crimson players, and the narrow fairways heavily penalized stray shots. The Yale players, familiar with the course, were able to cope with a constant heavy wind that caused the visitors scores to soar...
...most devastating and widespread nutritional disorder in the U.S. today. Tests on 103 men showed that the average fellow consists of about 14% fat at the age of 20, eats his way up to 25% fat by the time he reaches 60. Dr. Brozek's advice: lop 7% from the 3,000 calories consumed daily for every decade after...
Twenty-eight states have already passed this sort of resolution. If four more fall in line, the resolution will be placed before the states for approval as the Twenty-Third Amendment. By halting progressive taxation at twenty-five percent, the Amendment would lop an estimated fifteen billion dollars from federal tax revenues. Its sponsors, of course, hope that the Government will chop its budget by the same amount. But foreign and defense commitments make this impossible. The Government, therefore, will be unable to finance these commitments without walking the tightrope of deficit finance or instituting highly regressive taxation...
...With combined production of nearly 400,000 units a year, it will be more than twice as big as its nearest British competitor, Ford's subsidiary. Though their sales organizations will be merged, the two firms will continue to make separate models; eventually, however, they will lop off models that compete with each other...
...that aspires to more professional standards, simply because such games will draw more fans and hence more money. That is why Harvard's schedule next year will include teams whose athletic policies more closely resemble our own. This move will solve one aspect of the problem--the consistently lop-sided scores--but it will not satisfy the people who want to see Harvard restored to its football eminence of several decades...