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Three crippling industry-wide strikes have been imposed on us by the steel, copper, and dock workers. Nearly all of us are workers, but we can recognize greed when we see it. Clearly none of these strikes are justified this year...
Hedreen and McCall also may not play the entire contest. If Hedreen defects, Ekpebu may play center, or Keith Lowe may come in. Pete Savage, Bill Driver, and Bill King are all excellent substitutes, but none can replace McCall, whom Munro calls "the best halfback I know...
...near-mimicry of high school carries over into the classroom. Few lecture courses are given in the University's undergraduate program, and virtually none in the Wharton School. There are, in most courses, regular assignments, frequent quizzes, and emphasis on recitation. The degree requirements in the College ask only that the student compile 32 semester credits of a total of 128 in his major field; there are no general examinations. Although students evince great conscientiousness about class attendance--perhaps since the administration permits only six cuts per course per term--intellectual concern does not extend to the dormitories, dining halls...
...rival NBC wanted none of that solution. Suggesting archly that to be consistent CBS would have to drop such petty-cash guessing games as I've Got a Secret and What's My Line?, NBC said that it would make its own shows honest from top dollar to bottom, because "millions of Americans like and want them...
...Armada was reported off Plymouth,* and Sir Francis Drake cockily went on with his game of bowls, supposedly boasted that he had time to finish and beat the Spaniards too. Of the running sea fight that began next day, Historian Mattingly observes: "No naval campaign in previous history, and none afterward until the advent of the aircraft carrier, involved so many fresh and incalculable factors...