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...snorting tip-top undefeated Princeton basketball team plays the Crimson tomorrow night in the New Jersey whistle-stop. The Tigers, just back from winning the Spartan Classic tournament at Michigan State, are ranked fifteenth in the nation, but Norm Sheppard's men are in their best physical shape of the year and hungry for an upset in their first Eastern League game...
...sixth year of Tito's rule. It seemed certain to produce gossip. If Tito provided the sumptuous buffet usual at such affairs, the guests could not only eat well, but make ironic asides about the Yugoslav famine. If the table was bare, they could at least have the spartan pleasure of watching high U.S. officials-who had accepted in droves-struggling to be polite while hungry...
Loud Screams. The scalp was scrubbed, and then began the most painful part of the treatment: under the revealing lamp, infected hairs were pulled out with tweezers. In spite of loud screams echoing down the halls, this Spartan procedure was necessary because the fungus penetrates the follicle clear down to the hair root. After a hot salt compress to open up the pores, the children had a detergent solution (Bacticide) rubbed into their scalps...
Reason for the Spartan decree is Yugoslavia's present food shortage (TIME, Oct. 16) caused by a severe summer drought. Housewives standing in long lines for meager bread rations grumbled when they saw the colonels' and the commissars' ladies breezing into well-stocked special food stores. Tito could have applied the new equality only to food, but he apparently considered it politically expedient to extend the measure over the whole field of amenities available to Communist party members. It all went to show how rapidly a vice such as egalitarianism could eat into an otherwise uncorrupted Communist...
...nice things about coaching football at the United States Military Academy these days is that the prospects of losing a speedy halfback to the draft are nil. In addition, the Spartan life at West Point makes the problem of conditioning a relatively minor one, and exceptional schoolboy athletes who aspire to become officers and gentlemen often...