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...varsity swimming team closes its 1958-59 season this weekend at the NCAA championships at Cornell. Defending champion Michigan will lead the awesome array of powerful midwestern schools, which have much greater talent than even Eastern winner Yale. The Big Ten colleges in particular possess world-calibre swimmers, which should easily beat Yale's contingent...
...limited by the choices of the applicants. In most cases those students who can overcome the prejudice against Harvard that exists strongly around the U.S., come from backgrounds which lean toward or admire the East; and those who are equipped to handle the academic requirements of Harvard usually possess a sophistication which allows them to be easily assimilated into the predominating intellectual atmosphere. The rarity of extreme local accents at Harvard suggests a group of students who are already conscious of and are trying to suppress their regionality. They are further coerced by pressure to eradicate some of the more...
...hard to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy...
...beyond all else, is t01) end Berlin's status as an outpost of Western power, and 2) oblige the West to accept, openly or implicitly, the permanence of the East German Communist state. To force the West's hand, Khrushchev denies that the Western powers any longer possess World War II "conquerors' rights" in Germany -which means that he does not concede them any legal justification for maintaining forces in Berlin or any legitimate interest in the future of East Germany. If there is to be any link between East and West Germany, it must1) be negotiated...
...soloist, Neal Zaslaw and Richard Oldberg, both possess extremely fine techniques, which enabled them to handle easily the involved passage-work with which Mozart fills out his instrumental concertos. Zaslaw, playing the first Flute Concerto, in G, used a tone which, while more breathy than some tastes prefer, is even and manageable enough for delicate articulation. Oldberg's tone also veers away from the "pure" school, toward the specifically brassy sound...