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While this ruling would have an obvious impact on such groups as Stanford's "Buck of the Month Club," its impact on the heavily regulated Ivy League is still uncertain. The Ivy League bans "try outs" and prohibits alumni clubs from paying travel of prospective scholar athletes to the Ivy schools. Alumni do, however, expend considerable personal and/or club funds on trips to interview the prospects in their areas. Such expenses under the new rule could no longer be exempted as contributions to charitable institutions. Expenditures of Ivy coaches are still met by the universities themselves, which are excluded from...
...that this headlong quality has often proved right. Years ago, when a British White Paper restricted further Jewish immigration and land purchases in Palestine on the eve of World War II, he decided that Jews must be brought to Palestine in large numbers in defiance of the British rule. "We shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war, and the war as if there were no White Paper," he said. The illegal immigration, the organization of which he left as always to enthusiastic young followers, helped build a solid, well-knit and trained community to fight...
Since that cold Nov. 18 when she first showed up in her seventh-grade classroom wearing a pair of corduroy slacks, Shirley Richardson, 14, of Thompsonville, Conn., has been leading a lonely life. Principal Ernest White told her that slacks were against the rule, and that unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never...
...footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek. In The Greek Passion, the peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching a man in mid-passion and life at full flood...
...letter came to us anonymously, but it seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant suspending our rule.--Editor.) --The Boston Herald January...