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...NOTEBOOK: The Ivy League situation shapes up this way: Yale. With two losses, Harvard has lost virtually all chance of an undisputed Ivy title, but still holds a slight chance of gaining a part of it. The Elis now are the only undefeated team, after Dartmouth was upset this weekend at Cornell (7-3). If the Elis defeat the Big Green next week, then they are golden. If Dartmouth wins, then Harvard will have to win its next two Ivy games, defeat Yale in The Game and hope Dartmouth loses to either Columbia, Brown or Princeton... Crimson defensive back Rocky...
...gaining ground. Some members of New York's Jewish community detected a gradual, if reluctant, shift back toward Carter among their group; the President must have strong Jewish support to carry a state he needs badly. Reagan still had an edge in Pennsylvania, although there was a slight trend toward the President. In Illinois, a Chicago Tribune poll showed that Carter had taken a lead over Reagan (34% to 29%, with Anderson at 12.5% and a vital 17.5% undecided). In Ohio, labor leaders seemed to be having some success in persuading blue-collar workers to support Carter...
...whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand Hammer, the U.S. industrialist and buddy of Brezhnev's, came straight from Moscow last week with a secret letter of peaceful portents from the Soviet President for his American counterpart. Begin's slight shift on the Palestinians seemed designed to burnish his U.S. image before the big ballot. All of these events at the very least focused more national concern on the issue of leadership...
...with the social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares" (as Henry James would say of the English gentleman) are emblems of sensibility and composure, not of emotion. Now and again a very slight hint of irony seems to intrude, but one may be fairly sure that one's own 20th century ideas, not Gainsborough's 18th century intentions, place it there...
...report said, however, that grade inflation since 1968 has been very slight, Grades in the humanities rose and grades in engineering fell in that time, the committee said...