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Kaese imagined Harvard, the nation's richest University, as a football giant, with the best players and coaches in its hire. Team members could atempt to get an education on the side, of course. But ideally, studies would not be allowed to interfere with the main object: producing the best of all possible football teams...
...church has many adherents due to the main centuries of missionary activity in the area but one doubts whether it has any value to influence conduct besides being an emotional purge e.g. it is estimated that 70% of all births on the island are illegitimate...
...main Republican hope in next year's elections is to win Congressional seats in Northern cities by emphasizing the party's stand on the Civil Rights Bill and on Little Rock. The results of last week's vote would seem to indicate the limited effectiveness of this appeal; both Meyner and Wagner strongly carry Negro districts. Northern Democrats have long been associated with the cause of civil rights, and even if on this issue the GOP seems stronger, to assume that the Negro votes solely on the civil rights issue is to insult his civic intelligence and disregard his economic...
Railroaders themselves are increasingly skeptical of the value of lightweight trains for main-line service. The Pennsylvania, after experimenting with lightweight trains between Washington and Philadelphia, ordered six new light electric cars of a more conventional design from Budd Co. for commuter service. The Chicago & North Western checked lightweight trains, but instead ordered 13 conventional-weight cars last week from Pullman-Standard. Surveying the trend, N. C. Dezendorf, boss of General Motors' electromotive division, admitted: "Several years ago, when lightweight trains were first discussed, there was tremendous enthusiasm among railroads for them. I was turning down orders. There...
...most ways, this country atmosphere is ideal. The main purpose of the Institute is to give to the world's most advanced scholars a place where they can find the peace and quiet necessary to the development and fruition of their scholarly researchers, and there could scarcely be a more suitable location for such peace and quiet than in the lovely, southern New Jersey countryside...