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...them from tying Yale for the loop lead and lesson hopes for the championship. The Crimson, which seems consigned to plodding along as well as possible, views every game from here on as "the most important of the season." A victory will keep the varsity in the running and prolong the suspense until next week; a loss would cut down on attendance for the rest of the season...
...matter how clever their diplomacy, the Communists could not hope to harness Africa's exploding forces to their will completely. The West has in Africa economic and political stakes that will not be lightly surrendered. What the Soviets could do-and presently seem determined to do-is to prolong and enhance the turmoil in Africa to destroy Western influence there, content to settle for chaos where they cannot control...
Housewives dislike hard water because it does not lather well, but it may prolong their lives, and more especially their husbands'. A surprising relationship between a high mineral content in drinking water and low death rates from heart-and-artery disease was reported last week in the A.M.A. Journal...
...Rest and inactivity, once a cardiac lesion has healed, do not prolong life," say Drs. Marvin C. Becker and Jerome G. Kaufman of Newark's Beth Israel Hospital and Rutgers University's Wayne Vasey. In Circulation, published by the American Heart Association, they condemn too much rest as likely to lead to "physical and emotional incapacity." Physicians and family may be as much to blame as the heart patients themselves for fostering idleness. To rehabilitate a patient after an attack, the researchers suggest, "we must accept the philosophy that work is a normal part of living, and important...
Merely the Beginning. The President's moratorium decision left plenty of obstacles still lying in the way of a safe guarded test-ban treaty. For one thing, the Russians may really not want any agreement at all, may be dangling concessions to prolong the talks and thus achieve their original aim of getting the U.S. to halt nuclear tests without any agreement on inspection. On this, the U.S. might get a better reading at the summit in mid-May. But even if President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev resolve the basic conflicts on inspection and control measures at the summit...