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...cuts make this year's squad the smallest in Harvard's history--18 men. Brooks says that the policy will give added incentive to his back-up swimmers, for now nobody is sure of his spot on the squad...
...markets, to be sure, have some excuses-though they almost invariably deny that there is even the smallest price or quality differential between neighborhoods. Overheads are higher in the slums, a result of such things as pilferage and steep insurance costs. There is also less competition, the final arbiter of price. Slum residents, who lack the mobility of suburbanites, are generally stuck with one or two stores-or the choice of going hungry...
Brown is the only Ivy school where soccer rides in the front seat along with football. The smallest school in the loop, Brown has had trouble attracting enough football players to have any success against Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--bigger schools with more active and farther-reaching alumni groups. But a good soccer team needs only a dozen men, and Brown coach Stevenson has been practically alone in the League in his aggressive recruitment...
...Negroes ignored the promptings of black militants to boycott the mayoral election and vote only for Atkins. Though the percentage of eligibles voting was the largest ever for a Boston municipal election, White's plurality of 12,552 out of 192,860 votes cast was one of the smallest in the city's history...
...last week reached weary agreement on a new contract-less than four hours before the strike deadline. Though Chrysler was hardly happy with the generous settlement it had been forced to accept, Company Negotiators John D. Leary and William E. O'Brien greeted the accord with relief. The smallest of the Big Three automakers has been enjoying a sales spurt fueled partly by the strike at Ford. Last month was Chrysler's best October ever-and only by averting a strike could it hope to keep its momentum...