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...Columbia Soccer team simply can't qualify as one of your all-time great soccer squads. Only six lettermen returned from the Lions' 1962 third place Ivy team, and coach Joe Molder has failed to unearth enough men with talented feet to round out a solid eleven. In three games, Columbia has scored one goal-none in its two Ivy games-while being blasted for nine by its opponents...
Today, their houses still stand. Some have been left to molder into drafty decay. But many of them have been updated with hot running water and good food, and have opened as inns. More and more tourists, tired of Hiltonia, have sought them out, willingly sacrificing a color telephone in every room for a sense of history and splendor. The best of the current batch of castle-hotels offer not only the built-in magic of a legendary site but also the charm of Old World prices-just the thing for a democrat who feels, as Toots Shor once observed...
...Triumph of the injection-molder's art is Jimmy Jet, a dial-laden gadget that looks like a cross between a 1958 Pontiac dash board and the cockpit of the U-2-and is nearly as big. Activate its batteries and an aerial view of a terrain nicely dotted with factories, bridges and other targets moves across a simulated TV screen; a silhouette of a plane also appears, and by turning the controls this can be made to pass "over" a target. A lever launches missiles from the cowling. More dazzling than durable, it is sold in supermarkets exclusively...
...lily, for Stanford was born rich in 1885, when Railroad Tycoon Leland Stanford launched it with the world's then biggest endowment-$21 million and 8,800 acres 30 miles south of San Francisco. Unhappily, wealth bred sloth at Stanford. It let its lavish Neo-Romanesque premises molder. Deluged with veterans after World War II, it was soon in serious trouble...
...world-only a ritualistic insistence that mankind must have some sort of security from war.* After years of worldwide incantations about support for the U.N. and worldwide disillusionment with its performance, Dag Hammarskjold did one thing-he reduced the great but impossible hope of U.N. as the molder of world peace to the small but possible hope of U.N. as an arbiter, and even a policeman, in relatively minor trouble areas where the interests of the great nations were not directly involved...