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...three-mile JV contest, Harvard placed third in team points, as Dave Sullivan and Brian Dunn led the Crimson with sixth-and eighth-place performances...
...thought nothing of tramping 35 miles between school and home to visit his mother on weekends. Once he even walked all the way to Guatemala-700 miles-in 36 days. He went on to cover a lot of ground as Mexico's 59th President. Last week, in his sixth-and final-state-of-the-nation address before surrendering his sash of office to Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in December. López Mateos trotted through the impressive record. It took almost three hours, and most of the speech dealt with Mexico's booming prosperity which has become...
From 16th place among the world's trading nations in 1938, Russia has risen to sixth-and is still rising. Its volume jumped from $1.5 billion in 1946 to $8.25 billion last year; its exports of industrial equipment have increased twentyfold. Today the Soviet Union has trade agreements with some 31 countries outside the Iron Curtain, and in the last year alone added Morocco, Tunisia, Cambodia, Japan and Ceylon to its list...
James Bryant Conant's first three books, written when he was a Harvard professor, were chemistry texts. His fourth was a wartime manifesto; his fifth an essay on the teaching of science. Last week, at 55, Harvard's President Conant published his sixth-and for the first time got around to a full-dress treatment of the subject that has been most on his mind the past 15 years: education, and what's wrong with it. Readers of Education in a Divided World (Harvard University Press; $3) will find it a relentlessly rational but occasionally sprightly discussion...