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Opposing the Crimson backfield will be a light and very fast set of Ohio backs. Averaging 175 pounds to the Crimson's 190-pound average, the Bobcats will rely on the speed of left halfback Les Carney, who can cover the length of the field in about 10 seconds, and the deception of an unusual "I" formation...
Perhaps the most interesting case study is that of Mormon culture, an area of small population, but one which has producer an amazing number of good writers. Ezra Pound, Vardis Fisher, Maureen Whipple. Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto (the last two having both attended Harvard, a long, long, ways in all respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture...
Despite the comment and lack of comment, the fact remains that Russia has done something that looks pretty impresive to the average man. A 180 pound ball is a small one, no doubt about that, but what will follow this? A 1,800 pound ball, then a 18,000 pound ball. When the satellites get that big it seems that the Russians might want to put little men in them and give the little men big guns...
Stronger Remedy. Rising at the fund meeting, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft showed the determination. "I have not come to discuss the exchange-rate parity of the pound," said he. "It stays at $2.80. I stated this before I left London. I repeat it now.'' One cogent reason was a stronger British trade surplus than expected, equivalent to $600 million in the year ended June 30, against previous official predictions of $350 million. Even at the risk of unemployment from the tightening of money by the Bank of England fortnight ago, said Thorneycroft, Britain will defend...
...week's end the pound had rallied strongly, hurdled the $2.79 level for the first time since July 11. Yet the world currency battle was far from over. If the pound had staved off the DM for the moment, Britain and other countries were concerned about the resurgence which began the fourth quarter of last year of a dollar gap for the first time since 1952. Though down from $600 million in the first quarter of 1957, the second-quarter U.S. surplus of $400 million (exclusive of a special $300 million payment to Venezuela) was still a heavy drain...