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...Yale quintet lost its second game in threee tries Saturday night as UConn played a strong second half to prevail, 71-59. Steve Swishenko, a 6-ft. 3-in. senior, led Yale with 21 points, with captain Rollin Chippey adding...
There are substantial forces in Spain today committed to political democracy and social change which enjoy widespread popular support--the Christian Democrats, Socialists, and Communists allied in the "Common Front," and the Democratic Military Union in the army. Until these groups obtain political power, and until genuine democratic rights prevail--such as freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom to strike, and the legality of all political parties including the Communists--Spain will remain a prisoner of Franco's heritage. Furthermore, those regions desiring political and cultural autonomy--The Basque country, Catalonia, Galicia and Valencia--must be granted self...
Last week, when Toynbee died at 86 in a York nursing home of the aftereffects of a stroke, the British obituaries were somewhat restrained. The Guardian observed that "his scheme of universal history was too absolute, and even his immense erudition too vulnerable...for his most ambitious work to prevail among contemporary generations." But some of those contemporaries were more generous. Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison said that "he was one of the few people who dared to write on the broad sweep of history." Daniel Boorstin, recently confirmed as the new Librarian of Congress, commented that "few historians...
...part-time New Jersey public defender, was appointed by the court to guard what he calls her "constitutional right to life." Coburn has gone so far as to say that Karen could recover. And if the evidence he puts forward supports him in any way, he seems certain to prevail...
...suburb. In Groton, Mass., one-third of the 200 people who joined the church between 1761 and 1775 confessed to fornication. A small Maryland Episcopal church chastised 13 fornicators or adulterers in a single month. The fact that there were confessions and corrections shows that simple permissiveness did not prevail, but neither did simple virtue...