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...CORRUPTION. "It hinders every im provement in society and the progress of the nation," said Thieu. "Its eradica tion is a very difficult task that re quires much courage, many efforts and patience, but I am determined to push vigorously the anticorruption program." Punishments, he said, would range from disciplinary measures all the way to imprisonment or even death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: State of the Union | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...Salvador, an American fiscal expert made the mistake of wearing white shoes to the office. He was practically ostracized, until a friend tipped him off that white shoes are taboo in the country. Thereupon he bought a pair of brown shoes and "noticed the immediate im provement in reception of myself and my technical advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And Away They Go! | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...secret, or senior societies, unlike the frats, or rather fraternities, are an institution peculiar to Yale. Each is a group of fifteen people dedicated to privacy and generally either self-im-provement, literature, liquor, athletics, or discussion. While they are public to the extent that the names of new members appear in the paper every year, they are secret in that no one ever reveals what goes on inside. Some have no windows. Others have many exits. Many retain mystical ceremonies and most have strange customs. Skull and Bones, for example, has the tradition that every member must leave...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...team averages show marked provement over the figures shown by the University nine at a similar stage of last season. Records of the end of May, 1926, show that at that time the batting mark stood at .258, nearly forty points below the current figures, while the fielding averaged .939, seven points lower than the defensive average shown by the nine to date this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELDING FIGURES RISE, BATTING MARKS FALL, AS NINE FACES TIGHTER HURLING | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

...nine games so far, and of the ten already played, she has won but four. After the first three games of the season, one of them a victory over the strong Fordham nine, the team took a bad slump and suffered five straight defeats. In a rally last Wednesday provement in both batting and fielding and defeated Amherst 7-4. In the game with Princeton on Saturday, Robinson held the Tigers to two hits until the 11th inning, when he allowed three singles in succession to bring in the winning tally

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE EIGHT AT GALES FERRY | 6/4/1919 | See Source »

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