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...Score Man. Around Washington, such failures prompt the scornful comment that Johnson is a "boxscore President," one who has racked up a fantastically high average in getting his programs through Congress but does not know how to administer them once they have become law. There were rumblings that the second session of the 89th may not be as acquiescent to Lyndon's wishes and whims as this year's Congress...
...Bruce Wayne and his ward, Dick Grayson, the two actors draw sneers every time they appear in their '40s street clothes (huge, wide-brimmed fedoras, oversized suits with cantilevered shoulders); when they change to their fighting costumes (masks, jersey pajamas, capes, Jockey shorts and boots), Wilson and Croft prompt more laughter than any other pair since Laurel and Hardy...
Since no one checks on students who have signed out in the estimated column until the next morning, these signones do not insure the prompt discovery of an accident or attack. Cases in which Radcliffe discovers an incident before the Cambridge or University Police are extremely rare...
...newly-appointed Committee on House Assignments will soon begin meetings to fill in the details of the new policy. It should recommend prompt transition to computer tabulation, which nevertheless allows both student and Master to retain optional choice. A plan advanced by the Harvard Undergraduate Council last spring, for example, would permit students to rank as many or as few Houses as they wish, and Masters to request as many students as they wish. Then the choices would be matched by a computer, which would also consider distribution along the traditional lines. In this way, a maximum number of choices...
Post-mortem studies show that, with prompt detection and proper treatment, half of those who die of head injuries could have been saved. Lasting or delayed disability could be similarly reduced, reported Pakistani-born Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at Bethesda, Md. Detection, however, is doubly difficult in the peculiar and treacherous kind of injury known as "whiplash"-the result of the sudden forward-and-backward snapping of the head that is common in rear-end auto accidents...