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Volleyball is the No. 1 sport of the world from the standpoint of actual participation. It beckons both sexes, all ages from eight to 80, involves grammar school children on all continents, entices the octogenarians of the Himalayas, delights beach bathers throughout the world, has become a varsity sport in the armed services, and in 1964 became an official Olympic sport. The news media thrive on the spectator interests in the sports world, but it is the doer rather than the watcher who is the real sportsman...
...agreement, subsidies are supposed to encourage efficient producers and penalize less efficient producers, so that prices ought to fall in the long run. But the short-run effect is bound to be inflationary, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville complained: "One cannot pretend that, from the economic standpoint, what we have done is entirely defensible...
Within hours of the week's first session, members of the House had introduced four resolutions calling for an investigation of the thrice-divorced Justice's "moral character." Kansas Republican Robert Dole charged that Douglas had not only used "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint, but also in a number of 5-to-4 decisions of the Supreme Court." Democrat Byron Rogers of Colorado suggested that the romantic Justice might be retired under a law allowing for the removal of a judge "permanently disabled from performing his duties...
...teach the police administration techniques, were actually under orders "to engage in counterespionage and counterintelligence"; M.S.U. raked in $25 million in seven years before Premier Ngo Dinh Diem canceled its contract; the university "actually supplied" the Vietnamese "with guns and ammunition." The gravest accusation of all, from the standpoint of academic integrity, was that the university had made "a conscious effort to prepare reports pleasing, or at least palatable" to Diem...
...order to assist the CRIMSON in its laudable effort to help freshmen reach a decision about available fields of concentration from an informed standpoint, the follwing information about concentration in Engineering and Applied Physics should be made available...