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...Tufts team, which last season captured the Greater Boston Tournament , is stiffer competition. "Tufts has an outstanding team," said Weiland; "we to have our work cut out for us." Weiland stated that his team needed practice, "but we might surprise," he added...
Besides simplifying the literacy test, the bill outlaws using stiffer standards against Negro registrants and declaron that literacy in Spanish alone "provides no reasonable basis" for denying the vote...
...Washington looks for U.S. exports this year to rise by $400 million, to $20.5 billion. But because many foreign nations retain trade barriers stiffer than those of the U.S., the Kennedy Administration foresees no major surge in U.S. exports-unless tariffs can be slashed throughout the free world. Agreeing with this viewpoint, the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week resoundingly endorsed the President's drive for freer world trade...
...Literature in the Nineteenth Century) which marshals, among others. Pere Goriot, Wuthering Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
...Australia, Canada, India and the other Commonwealth countries. As Brit ain buys less from them, they will buy less from Britain. Already some Midwestern manufacturers believe that Canada may quickly open up to more imports from the U.S. tool and die industry. On the other hand, there will be stiffer competition in markets of the Commonwealth from such Common Market powers as Germany, France and Italy...