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...basic principles are stated in the introduction to the Financial Aids manual: "that participation shall be limited to individuals who are representative of their student bodies," and "that the student-athlete must be one who engages in athletics, not for any material exploitation of his athletic prowess, but as an activity incidental to his educational objectives...
First sign of Japan's reviving interest in her military prowess was the publication of I-58, the story of the Japanese submarine which sank the U.S.S. Chicago. The first Japanese book about World War II that was not a tale of defeat, I-58 sold 100,000 copies, has been followed by a spate of similar war books as well as a monthly magazine called Maru. Almost entirely devoted to eyewitness accounts of World War II actions, e.g., "Dogfight over Rabaul." Maru has become the bible of many a Japanese teenager. Wrote one young reader: "I felt...
...warning was in a sense a testimonial to Graham's prowess as a preacher. But, concluded Father Kelly, "we should all pray for Billy Graham." In the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America, Jesuit Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology at Maryland's Woodstock College, agrees. "Faced with the vast popularity and substantial shortcomings of Graham's 'crusade,' we can only sigh and reflect that we, like him, are also Adam's children, defective and half-blind ... It would ill become us to be harsh or cynical toward a man whose zeal and sincerity...
...prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English instructor at Columbia University to about $28,795. (Columbia last week gave him a $100-a-year raise that had nothing to do with his TV prowess...
...laws. Even in the warm sunshine of the training camps, baseball owners shivered to think of the possible consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would mean the doom of professional sports. "I'm not out to wreck football or sports," explained Old Pro Radovich, ready for court battle to collect $105,000 in damages. "I put 22 years...