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Yale, strong and confident in the field events, is favored to retain its championship in the 20th annual Heptagonal Games at Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon. In a special mile race, Josy Barthel, the Olympic 1500-meter champion, will run his first American outdoor race against a select field of four...
...select few who rule Red China, these jour share the ultimate power...
Every spring, various civic and educational groups look over the nation's classrooms and select some man or woman to be their Teacher of the Year. Last week in Los Angeles, such an honor went to a woman who has not taught for a decade. But the choice was not as strange as it might seem. To thousands of teachers across the U.S., Ethel Percy Andrus, 69, could claim the title any year...
...Admission Board could select from the many applicants only those girls who scored well on the College Board examinations, stand high in their classes, or those who do not require scholarships, but Jordan thought such a policy might have unfortunate results. "We need normality in the student body," he said...
...showpiece for Rome's two-week International Conference on Contemporary Music. Familiar as they were with operatic plots featuring faithless love (Pagliacci), harlotry (Traviata), rape (Don Giovanni), incest (Die Walküre), bastardy (Norma), Gomorrahism (The Rake's Progress) and murder (Tosca, etc.), Rome's select first-night audience balked at Boulevard Solitude...