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...think the tournament has become a bit ludicrous, I mean by that overemphasized, but it's a lot sounder than having a national board select the best American team...
Democrats and Republicans alike began the week with caucuses to select party leaders. Texas' Lyndon Johnson described the Democratic Senate meeting as all milk and honey, while Colorado's Eugene Millikin said of the G.O.P. session: "There was not a single unharmonious feature." But there was some dissonance outside the caucus rooms of both parties...
...smarting from Tuesday's unexpected tie with spirited Brown, the varsity will be anxious to gain the first leg in its bid to capture the Pentagonal crown for the second straight year, and perhaps to impress Dartmouth coach Eddie Jeremiah. Jeremiah is a member of the board that will select the Eastern representatives to the NCAA Championship tourney in Colorado this spring...
This time of year, critics, exhibitors, trade papers and assorted know-it-alls select their cinema bests-and after checking over the 1954 crop, the choices were pretty automatic all the way. At the top of the heap: Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly...
...nation tap its increasing wealth for more public schools? The Citizens Commission takes no sides: either state or federal revenues "can provide the increase in the amounts required to educate 48 million children in 1965. The problem is to select the best [combination] to meet education requirements . . . at the local level without federal control...