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...From the standpoint of individual statistics, tomorrow's game is important to Crimson Captain Johnny Caulfield. Caulfield is now third in league batting with a 414 average. Leading the league is Bob Haley of Cornell with 440. Both men have one game left and as it now stands Caulfield with 12 hits for 20 times at bat can still overtake Haley who has 11 hits for 25 at bats...
...Religion must be considered from the standpoint of one or another Christian taitn because, whether we like it or not U.S. and state laws are based on the concepts of the Christian religion." So spoke New Mexico's Attorney General Joe L. Martinez in arguing before the state supreme court that Lindrith High School pupils could legally say the Lord's Prayer in their classrooms and study "basic, non- denominational Christian concepts." Last week came a ringing war whoop from Indian-loving Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge in the Santa Fe New Mexican...
...somehow, in all of "Ivan's" ardor and devotion, there seemed to be a fatal flaw. He liked to run the Ministry of Education in his own way and he stubbornly resisted the demands of party politicos with axes of their own to grind. From the standpoint of the Casa Rosada, Oscar Ivanissevich was beginning to seem a little too independent...
From an economic standpoint, integration is a worthy goal, but the methods of bringing it about are very complex and controversial. For instance, in the nineteenth century abolishing tariffs would automatically integrate economics. But such a move is now useless when nations have other rigid controls on trade. Also integration could never be effective as long as neighboring countries could pursue separate fiscal policies...
...Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...