Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bruce Hunter zipped through the 50-and 100-yard freestyles in excellent times. Diver Chick Montgomery, performing on a low board, defeated two strong Dartmouth...
...yard freestyles in the person of John Daniels. Against him will be some combination of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, and Dave Seaton in the 220 and Bob Komanda in the 440. The Lion's third big strength is the dive, where the use of a low board favors the Lion's Stew Summers and Glenn Gemelli over Chick Montgomery. The home pool factor, however, may be able to offset this and break up the Dartmouth combination...
When Congress voted a $6 million appropriation for long-term, low-interest student loans under the National Defense Education Act, it failed to provide a satisfactory method of allocation. Under the law, if requests from institutions of higher learning exceed the appropriation (a foregone conclusion), the requests within each state are slashed by a corresponding percentage. In Massachusetts, for example, colleges asked for over $2.3 million, whereas only $249,680 was available. Resulting grants thus were pared to about ten per cent of requests and ranged from Boston College's $54,472 to the $51 gift to North Adams State...
Federal assistance to higher education, especially long-term, low-interest loans, is welcome. As colleges are forced to expand, their financial aid resources are spread thinner and thinner. But, to prevent the Program from becoming a farce, Congress should amend the Act to provide a workable method for determining actual financial need, while insuring colleges against unwanted Federal control...
...Kulturny, For the prospective traveler in the U.S.S.R. Levine supplies a cautionary list of what is ne kulturny (not cultured). Russians frown on low-cut dresses and stockingless legs, and scorn women who wear hats or coats in restaurants. Men should never put their feet on desks or cross their legs or keep their hands in their pants pockets. To whistle in public will cause cries of "Ne kulturny but Russians think nothing of shoving and elbowing their way through crowds or of using their fingers to tear off bits of meat at the table...