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Harvard, the only Ivy team not to see holiday action, leaves to play Friday in the Blue Nose Classic at Halifax, Nova Scotia, against three Canadian teams...
...hockey team is the only Harvard squad with competition scheduled for the Christmas break. The basketball team is usually entered in a tournament, but the best Athletic Director Adolph Samborski could come up with this season is the "Bluenose Classic" in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over January 5-6. The hoopsters have gotten few breaks so far: on their slate of seven pre-Ivy games they got to play Navy here. But they got stuck with a ridiculous string of road trips, to Wesleyan, Williams, and the University of New Hampshire. The other three games are home, saving them treks...
...breathe, the water we drink and the land we till. Every infant born in America today has detectable quantities of DDT in his body." Possibly to get away from it all, Piccard announced plans to submerge himself in a four-to-six-week underwater "free drift" from Florida to Nova Scotia next summer...
Four-Time Winner. Bob Stanfield, 53, a lawyer by training, comes from a rich old Nova Scotia family that made its fortune in knitting mills; winter long Johns, one of its products, were known during the Yukon gold rush as "Stanfield's unshrinkables." An unassuming pragmatist, he took over Nova Scotia's Conservative leadership in 1947, when the party did not hold a single seat in the provincial legislature. Nine years later he came to power, and has since won three elections. When fellow party members suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first...
...interested in empty decision making just to show I am decisive," he says. His policies will differ from the Liberal program mostly "in terms of priorities." He is a progressive who sees no "original sin" in government economic planning and built so elaborate a welfare program in Nova Scotia that he was called a Conservative socialist. At the same time, he wants Canada's growing welfare state to be administered in a more businesslike way. Like Pearson-and unlike Diefenbaker-Stanfield believes broadly in warmer relations with the U.S. and more foreign investment in Canada. With his accession...