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...federal onslaught on national aid programs seems certain to jeopardize the University's policy by forcing Harvard to pick up an ever greater share of the aid tab in years to come. We can only hope that the University will continue to give equal access in admissions the heavy weight it declined to accord to the morally imperative loan ban and the academically crucial Fogg wing...
...sympathize with the Vermonters' annual battle against the onslaught of mud [May 10]. Bemidji, 240 miles north of Minneapolis, sits in the middle of woods, bogs and lakes and is no newcomer to dealing with mudology. A standing joke around here is let a Volkswagen go ahead of you. Then drive over its roof when it falls into a mudhole...
Considering the Cyclopean onslaught of photographers the royal family must endure, it is rather a quaint sight to catch them squinting into the lens themselves. Like a good sportsman's wife, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, was front and center to watch Prince Philip, 60, in the three-day Royal Windsor Horse Show's carriage-driving contest. The prince, who started racing coaches at 50 after he gave up polo, has been a runner-up four times in the past, but this year he reined supreme. Presented the first-place trophy by his No. 1 fan, Philip smiled...
...That august group who stand fearlessly between Presidents and the press, caught in the onslaught of verbal crossfire-announcing, pronouncing, fending, defending ad infinitum, without fear or trepidation for their jobs, their future, and their reputation...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard trounced Yale but lost to Princeton in a Big Three match played April 23rd--a result that was repeated in the Ivies...In other League action. Harvard played Dartmouth in Hanover Tuesday, putting up a brave fight but ultimately falling before the Big Green onslaught...