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Initiates to Harvard basketball may be surprised at the Crimson's rank in some pre-season top 20 polls, but it is a good omen for the hard-core followers who knew it would happen sooner or later. "The squad, which boasts four former high school All-Americans (double last year's number), has its work cut out for it though, if it expects to live up to its 11th-place rating in Basketball Magazine...
HARVARD-PENN--Princeton dumped the Quakers, 31-0, and even Brown kept even and almost toppled Penn, so a loss today would be an agonizing omen on November weekends to come. Without quarterback Pinto, though, the Quakers are worse than the coffee Jello at the Freshman Union. Penn will desperately go to the air, and sometimes that pays off in touchdown bombs. In fact, the Buffalo Bills have used that method successfully for eight victories in the last four years. But the Bills play 14 games a year and Penn already has its Ivy victory over Brown. The Crimson will...
...news is a discouraging omen for colleges and the Nixon Administration, which are eager to expand student loans to erase the financial squeeze in higher education. Bankers blame the high default rates on the nature of the loans themselves. To begin with, there is the difficulty of tracking down a borrower after he has graduated and perhaps moved away. Most important, unlike the majority of consumer loans, student loans are not secured by collateral. Asks one frustrated loan administrator in Illinois: "If the kid doesn't pay up, what are we going to do, repossess his diploma...
...Donhowe was in effect converted by the youngsters to unstructured Christianity. He resigned and took his evening congregation with him. Some of his older parishioners joined the secession. Now known simply as "Bird Rock," they meet in Bird Rock Elementary School in La Jolla. If Bird Rock is an omen, it would be an ironic one: the dove, after all, is the ancient symbol of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus built his own church upon a rock...
...carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk business. When a cow gave birth to a calf outside a polling booth, everyone hailed it as a good omen. Officials of the New Congress Party, whose symbol is a cow nursing a calf, immediately ordered a shed erected...