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...management of the Faculty Club has been conducting a referendum on whether to retain the rule. "Though it's too early to predict a trend, it's been running 65-35 in favor of the rule," said Charles Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club...
...PRINCETON: "Be true to your school, like you would to your girl or guy," we've been told by emotional-impact analysts. That's fine. Cap'n Crunch and I will surely be there, and that will help the Crimson, but I just don't think I can honestly predict a victory for Harvard. Granted, we usually do better in Palmer Stadium than we do here, but that's academic. Princeton, of course, is no pussy emotionally. The team's feelings can probably best be summed up by Fabian's immortal words in "Tiger"-"I want to growl Wow!" What...
Unfree Enterprise. It is not difficult to predict the outrage that Wills' book will detonate in Spiro Agnew-to say nothing of Nixon himself. Wills attacks ad hominem and sometimes quite unfairly-even granting the license of political satire. In one unpleasant lapse, for example, he describes Pat and Dick Nixon getting married: "The serious young man, son of a Quaker saint, docilely lines up at the marriage mart, where all the gooiest extras-orange blossoms, 'O Promise Me,' illusion veils -cover the emptiness of the transaction." It is both Wills' method and mistake to insert...
Hope of Profits. Theoretically, the new rail corporation is supposed to earn a profit, like Comsat. Private railroaders consider this idea ludicrous, and predict that Railpax will be forced to turn to Congress for more subsidy within a year or two. Even if their freight operations are included, the much-admired nationalized railroads of Western Europe and Japan run deeply in the red. Railpax backers count on managerial innovations to entice more riders aboard trains. The average passenger may find conditions much the same for a considerable time. Railpax will pay the private railroads to operate its trains; they will...
...Market, and the entry of Britain would open the Continent wider to the City of London's powerful banks. Europeans see multinational combines as the logical way to compete. Leaders of Lyonnais and Commerzbank say that their association is open to other partners, and some bankers predict that Dutch, Belgian and Italian banks may join...