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SWIMMING-A new coach and a new outlook could spell the advent of widespread changes in Harvard swimming this year. The new coach, Don Gambril, is accustomed to national prominence and is a nominee for the 1972 Olympic coaching job. He is a demanding coach and a great recruiter. Last spring, he was able to convince 9 of 11 top swimmers admitted to the Class of 1975 that Harvard was the only place...
Democrats hastened to spell out their objections. Wages are frozen, but not interest rates; strikes are discouraged, but profits are free to rise; the Administration's chief social welfare innovation, the family assistance program, carrying a guaranteed minimum income, has been deferred for a year as part of the price of economic stability. Said a Muskie aide: "You create enough money for millionaires to buy Cadillacs, and you create jobs for chauffeurs." Senator Muskie was more guarded, but he made approximately the same point. Said Muskie: "I don't believe that the best way or the fairest way to stimulate...
...paralysis that immobilized him within two years. Inexplicably, it stopped before reaching his vital organs, but left him with the ability to move only his right thumb slightly. For Rosenzweig, that was enough. With his wife next to him, he would laboriously point out letters of the alphabet to spell words, eventually turning the words into essays, books, even bits of music criticism, which he did as a hobby. Still more incredibly, he found time to collaborate with Martin Buber in translating the Hebrew Bible into German-a translation hailed as the best since Martin Luther...
...dropping prices and softening demand for some of its main export items, including tin and rubber. Rice exports, the mainstay of the economy, have been especially poor, largely because Asia's "green revolution" has made rice producers out of countries that formerly were importers. Thailand, under the spell of Mai pen rai and the war boom, failed to diversify its economy. In consequence, the country has a bulging rice stockpile and growing trade deficit...
...patch messages concern sex. Appliqués allow the wearer to spell out practically anything that he is concerned with at the moment-peace, pot or politics. There are patches reading WORK FOR PEACE and some in the shape of doves and peace symbols. Others portray the Black Panther fist salute, the Puerto Rican flag and a Chicago police badge. One of the more elaborate looks like a marijuana plant and is inscribed with the slogan...