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...varsity track team should find the competition in this afternoon's IC4A. Meet a bit stiffer than that which the Big Three offered on Wednesday. Villanova and Manhattan, co-favorites today in Madison Square Garden, are among those out of the varsity's class...
...Five Year Plan, the Communists proclaimed that industry must be shifted from the old seaboard cities to new centers in the interior. One of the first moves: transplant Shanghai's textile mills, heart of the city's industry, to cotton-growing areas. Last spring came an even stiffer edict. "It is absolutely necessary to reduce the population," decreed the city's Communist People's Congress. The reported goal: 50%. Explained the newspaper Sin Wen Daily: "Shanghai was abnormally developed ... for the benefit of imperialism, bureaucratic capital and feudalism...
...competition was stiffer than expected: at the end of the first two hours the crowds were screaming excitedly as Britain's Mike Hawthorn, in a Jaguar, was well in the lead, followed by two Ferraris and then the three Mercedes. Hawthorn had done 28 laps in less than 120 minutes, and was just about due to pull in for refueling...
...Harvard is more competitive after admission, Yale seems to have somewhat stiffer entrance standards. Harvard, which up to the post-13Yale's Sterling Law Quadrangle...
...cheer for the import of Scotch whisky, but perhaps there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...