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Tufts, MIT and Brandeis will be scrounging around for any crumbs that Harvard, Northeastern, or B.C. might happen to overlook, while Boston University will make its usual six-point bid for spring supremacy...
...much of a hurry to get them on film, to make the full balanced works of the European masters. But through it all there is a sense of such vitality and interest, a feeling of place and mood, an atmosphere of light and detail, that one can overlook so much of defect in the spirit of the whole...
...examine only the similarities between the marketing of ideas and products is to overlook the very important differences between these two acts, i.e., the empirical observation that a free press, with all its faults, has been able to help us monitor our Government and help prevent it from becoming a totally self-serving institution...
With shortages of gasoline, heating fuel and other petroleum products gripping the nation, it is easy to overlook an important fact: the U.S. is still by far the world's largest oil producer. In 1972 U.S. wells pumped out 9.4 million...
...deep and how permanent is the rift? Karl Dietrich Bracher, a respected West German political scientist, thinks it can be easily healed. "Many present commentaries seem overpessimistic and overlook reciprocal interests," he says. "A serious showdown between Europe and the U.S. seems to be a purely theoretical issue." From the other side of the Atlantic, there was a feeling that bygones ought to be bygones. "We have made our point," says one State Department official. "We have shown our anger. Now we can go on with business...