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...Mortes (River of Death), in the Matto Grosso, to the country of the Chavante Indians last month journeyed a seven-man peace commission, sent by Brazil's Indian Bureau. Such commissions have made peace with most of the distrustful tribes of the hinterlands by following the bureau's inflexible rule: "Die if necessary, but never kill...
...called good? We lost 21 lettermen in graduation last year. There is not a single holdover from last year's starting lineup from last year's crew. All in all, there is only a seven-man nucleus of veteran material, and not much on the veteran side at that...
Last week Virginia's clearheaded Senator Harry Byrd allowed the SPAB was an improvement on the previous mess. "Yet, after all," said he, "one man, the ablest in America, can do a better job than a seven-man board . . . . Let us have a procurement director . . . with power to act." Thus it remained to be seen whether the new setup could genuinely...
...squash team got over the first of its two big hurdles in intercollegiate play by turning back the seven-man Princeton squad 4 to 3 at Princeton Saturday. The other important opponent is Yale, and the rest of the Harvard intercollegiate schedule merely consists of dress rehearsals for that epic duel. For example, Dartmouth had a fine squash team this year, and in the words of its coach, Red Hoehn, "had a good chance to beat Harvard at last." The result was an 8 to 1 pasting absorbed by the Green in their own back yard. Williams was gobbled...
Basically, 150-lb. football is just like varsity football. Its offensive formations usually run out of a single wing (Yale sometimes uses a double wing). Defensively, the Fifties use all the standard lineups: five, six, seven-man, looping, overshifted lines. But, since all players weigh about the same (no more than 154 Ib. the day of the game), there is a premium on precision, speed, timing. A lightweight eleven's downfield blocking is often something even the pros might be proud of. Since Fifties play for fun rather than headlines, their strategies are more daring, more spectacular. Not unusual...