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...Crimson track team is "one of the best, if not the best" squad in recent years, according to coach Bill McCurdy, but it still "has its work cut out for it" in intercollegiate competition. All the varsity's future opponents, notably Yale and Army, have improved tremendously, and a few freshman wonders may provide even tougher competition next year...
...somewhat smaller degree of success in the recent K. of C. meet gave the varsity a warning of what may be coming later in the season. Yale was outstanding in both the one-mile and two-mile relays, in the former event handing the Crimson its first K. of C. loss in six years...
...accident that all this coincided with fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than...
...Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. His chatter was the latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend, as told by his friend, Norman Barrymaine...
...derided the tactics of North Viet Nam which, "while accusing us, provokes us." Insisting that Laos "must clearly state that it is on the side of the free world.'' Phoui boldly asked the National Assembly to vote itself out of existence. Like many another Asian leader in recent months. Phoui was demanding the right to rule alone for a full year to arrest the nation's political drift and shore up its economy...