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John Pringle leads an eight-man Crimson squad into the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate swimming championships today, Friday, and Saturday at Princeton, and though the Crimson will not be in the running for the team championship, Pringle stands a good chance to pick up one or more firsts during a record-breaking filled meet...
...lives. Perhaps their parents are of the administrative upper class, presiding over businesses or government offices. They probably applied only to Radcliffe and one or two other schools in "The Heavenly Seven" (as they would call it). And very likely they are from New England or the mid-Atlantic seaboard...
Harvard scored 14 points, placing fifth in the meet, which featured most of the collegiate track stars on the Eastern seaboard. Villanova, defending champions, again won the title, finishing well ahead of second-place Navy...
...Atlantic Seaboard is more familiar with the second house, but never have so many Bostonians-proper and improper-spread out in such numbers into the cool Berkshire Hills, or the trout-stream areas of New Hampshire and Vermont, or the watering places along the North Shore and Cape Cod. New Yorkers are stippling the dunes and potato fields of Long Island with daring new beach houses that are a far cry from the vast mansions of Southampton-the second houses of another generation...
Much of what the seaboards have gained, the vast land area in between has lost−in population and power, in industry, and even in intellect. Michigan, long the symbol of American industrial go-getiveness, last year got only 2.7% of the defense prime contracts (against 9.5% in 1951-53)-Illinois got 2%. The seaboard centers have been a magnet in a selective sense−the populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous...