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...expected, the varsity dominated the weight events, winning six of nine places including all three firsts. Art Doten started the Crimson onslaught by leading Loren Clayman and Art Croasdale in a sweep of the hammer throw. His winning toss of 174 ft. 9 in. was more than 50 ft. longer than that of the nearest Holy Cross competitor...
Tactical Blunder. President Kennedy was in no position to repeat his 1962 onslaught against steel. Having shattered business confidence once, he was politically reluctant to do so again. And the steel industry could make a pretty sturdy case for price increases. Its profits last year came to only 4% of sales. New York's First National City Bank recently published a compilation of percentage returns on net assets in various categories of industry, and steel tied meat-packing for last place in a list...
Stung by the Crimson onslaught, B.C. returned to the offense briefly in the third period. Eagle All-American Billy Hogan bounced a shot off the goal pipe and Wood made three fantastic saves in succession before the varsity could clear the puck to safer...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is a one-gag, all-night laugh show about a chagrined man of 60 who finds himself facing the unexpected onslaught of second fatherhood. As the father-to-be, Paul Ford is an excruciatingly funny anatomy of melancholy...
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan desperately needed a swift settlement. Buffeted by defeats in recent by-elections, Macmillan's Tories now faced a redoubled onslaught from the Labor Party, whose leader, Hugh Gaitskell, declared last week, "There is no overriding necessity for Britain's entry." Gaitskell charged that the U.S., which is not prepared to see the "disappearance of America as an independent nation," is acting hypocritically in urging Britain to surrender its sovereignty in a united Europe...