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...college weekly. The Maroon, this spirit is quite evident to visitors. The stranger to Colgate is dazed by the steady stream of "hellos" he receives from men who, as freshmen, greeted everyone under threat of a padding by Konosioni, the senior honor society. What started as a forced mutter from bewildered freshmen grows to a ready habit and finally becomes a matter of pride, until much genuine warmth is in every salutation...
Away from their grey skyscraper office on Manhattan's teeming 4?nd Street last week, the editors of a thriving monthly magazine got ready for a weekend of work without a mutter of complaint. One editor was off to Newport, R.I. to sail his 58-ft. yawl Caribbee in the 466-mile, 30-boat race to Annapolis, Md. The editor of the magazine headed for Norwalk, Conn., where he climbed aboard a launch and ran the weekly sailboat race of the Norwalk Yacht Club. Two of the magazine's ad staff were out on Long Island Sound racing...
...sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them would be indecent...
...special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping to bind together . . . the Commonwealth." Tory benchers broke into roars of approval. But from a few Laborite followers of soccer, which Britons consider their national sport, came a glum mutter: "Class favoritism!" ¶ Added: tax deductions, based on the cost of new plants and equipment (to encourage new investment). ¶ Soon to go: the excess-profits tax (30%), which will end next Jan. 1, leaving British industries and businesses with about $280 million more of their profits than they...
...usual, the guilty refuse to accept the blame. Do the good citizens sign and say, "Ah, well, we didn't support the team and new it's gone?" Perish to thought! Rather, they mutter about betrayal and curse Lou Perini for a hypocrite who pretended to be civic minded but cared only for the folding green...