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PHILADELPHIA--Completely dominating mid-field play and outshooting the hobbled Crimson, 18-4, in the second half, Penn's soccer team broke a 2-2 tie and went on to rout Harvard, 5-2, last night at Franklin Field...
Cornell, led by All-American tailback Ed Marinaro this fall, is a definite contender in the Ivy race. Marinaro is the core of the Big Red attack; he carried 43 times for 246 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-20 rout of Colgate last week. The Cornell defense is suspect, however, and it will face a Rutgers attack that exacted five touchdowns from Princeton. A victory would put the Big Red in quite a tolerable position...
...takes place on the night of Aug. 29, 1914, after the rout of the Russians at Tannenberg. The Russian commander, General Alexander Samsonov (an actual historical figure), walks through the dense Prussian forests with the remnants of his staff. "He had only wanted what was good," writes Solzhenitsyn, "but it all turned out extremely badly." This is one of the novelist's principal themes?that good intentions are not enough to make the world a better place...
MUSCLE Builder Charles Atlas might describe the present U.S. business recovery as a 97-lb. weakling -too puny to rout the bullyboy of unemployment. Members of TIME'S Board of Economists use more scholarly analogies, but they make the same point. At a recent all-day meeting, they offered this analysis of the nation's economy...
...first inning gave several indications that the game was soon to be a rout. Crimson runners stole second three times in the opening frame, twice when the catcher dropped the ball and once when the second baseman dropped the ball. And Mike Thomas delivered all the runs the Crimson needed with a double that cleared the bases...