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...varsity tennis team is favored to gain its fifth straight win when it takes on M.I.T. at 3:45 p.m. today on the Soldiers Field courts. Crimson coach Jack Barnaby expects a "rougher match," however, than the squad got in its last two outings--shutouts over Springfield and Bowdoin...
Judging from the squad's experience--it has six returning lettermen--Williams feels that "it's going to be a better team, but it faces a rougher schedule than in the past...
...army is not all bad. A native non-com accurately sizes up Gadein and helps him over the rougher spots. His British commanding officer likes him and protects him. But Gadein, in a world run by discipline, is like a giraffe staked out in a suburban garden. Inexorably, he slips down in the military social scale to latrine orderly. Inevitably he is court-martialed on false charges, convicted and sent to a detention center...
...Associated Press also thought it time to sound a "note of warning on political reporting." Said A.P. in its weekly official Log: "Politics are rough and will get rougher before November-so we take this opportunity to warn against misuse of verbs and adjectives. Remember: There never was a verb better than 'said' . . . We've had phrases like 'stinging attack,' 'stinging rebuke' and the verb 'noted,' which connotes truth. The prize of them all (not A.P.) was this lead: 'Canton, Ohio- Senator McCarthy disclosed today the Democratic Party...
...items, Zerbe set an old man with vertically furrowed face and sharply structural features against a background of high buildings. The man's face seems to be made of the same rough masonry as the building; Zerbe mixes mica, sand or flint with his plastic to give a rougher surface. Three Doors is a semi-abstraction in quiet reds, mauves and greens which conveys the dilapidated dignity of the hallways of old brownstone tenements...