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Since the establishment of the formalized Ivy League, all-star football games have had to exist without the doubtless splendor of Ivy athletes. The motive behind this ruling is a part of the concept that lies behind the Ivy Group as a whole--"that players...be permitted to enjoy the game as participants in a form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles." But recently the Student Councils at Cornell, Brown, and Harvard have asked that the League relax the ban against post-season participation...
Shifting Crown. The new Sihanouk role was that of kingmaker. In a ceremony of dazzling Oriental splendor last week he crowned his own father King of Cambodia. Long Sihanouk's close adviser, elderly (60), diabetic Suramarit and his statuesque wife Kossaman are members of the Khmer dynasty which goes back before recorded history, but neither was in the direct line of royal descent in 1941 when the French bent the legitimacy to make young Sihanouk King. Sihanouk, who deeply respects his parents, saw that the coronation got the full Oriental treatment, with dragon dancers, marching mandarins, hundreds of warriors...
America-Conscious. Wide, Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC) has never quite managed the splendor imagined by its creator, but its TV cameras have looked into the Grand Canyon, crossed the seas to Bimini and Cuba, and gone over the border to Mexico and Canada. Under the guidance of M.C. Dave Garroway, the show has penetrated Carlsbad Caverns, looked east and west from the Continental Divide, plunged underwater in Florida. Up to 60 TV cameras have been used on a single show. Inaccessible spots were joined to the network by 75,000 miles of circuit cables, and more than...
...concentrated and, most important, Rubens' own work. The better-known canvases were often almost wholly executed by helpers under Rubens' direction. These paintings were the work of the master both in plan and in execution. In their personal and extraordinary detail they chronicle his creative genius in its full splendor...
...Editorial board prefers to immolate itself in smoky splendor. With its own distinctive polished prose, the board offers an opportunity, through intensive criticism, for each candidate to improve his serious writing...