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...legs of Soviet aviators. Wearing the borrowed caps of the flyers, the girls pretended, between pinches and giggles, that they were learning how to operate the machine. Nearby, young Czechoslovak boys sprawled in the grass with Soviet enlisted men, examining their submachine guns and playing a sort of mumblety-peg with the short Soviet bayonets. As if to demonstrate their amiable nature, the Soviets put on a show by the Red Army Ensemble, complete with singers and a bosomy Russian blonde, in Prague's Esplanade playground. The Czechoslovaks pointedly stayed away...
Carter Lord had a creditable afternoon, reaching base twice and throwing out a runner at the plate with a monstrous peg from centerfield. The team's record now stands at five wins and three losses...
...Spellman's nephew, the Rev. John J. Peg-nam, a Navy chaplain who has been on a ship stationed off South Viet...
Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, concerned. 'No one need apologize for the recent outbreak of violence in the ghettos of out cities," he said. "White America created the ghettos and now, with grotesque and devious racism, it searches for a peg-leg to stand on--claiming that the Negro has no cause to attack white institutions...
...Dean Virgil Whitaker foresees a "potential catastrophic disruption" that could take 75% of the students now in their first year of graduate studies. Dartmouth's School of Business Administration figures that its total enrollment will drop at least 50%; graduate schools at Cornell and the University of Wisconsin peg the loss at about one-third; those at Yale, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts place it at 25%. Nearly all assume that most of their new students will be either wom en, veterans, foreigners, men with physical ailments or those over 25, which, under current practice...