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...varsity lacrosse team last week turned over a new leaf when it ended a nine game losing streak by beating M.I.T. and continued the new stride Saturday by running all over Penn...
...need) to make any real end to the cold war in Europe, or agree to any solution of the big problem, which was Germany. B. and K. went galumphing off to India and Burma where in a riot of flowers and oriental emotionalism Khrushchev hit his old demagogic stride. Asian adulation went to Nikita's head. Those who were waiting for Communism to crumble (i.e., the West), he told Pravda readers, would have "to wait until shrimps learn to whistle...
...nation's bankers promptly passed along to their customers the price increase on borrowed money. Big eastern banks hiked the prime rate, i.e., the interest they charge big borrowers with top credit ratings, from 3½% to 3¼%. On the stock market the change was taken in stride. Two days earlier Wall Streeters sensed that some anti-inflation move by the Government was due, and stocks took their sharpest slide in six months. But before week's end stocks steadied again...
...discriminatory tax ... on the movement of ideas." Toronto's Tory Telegram said it was a "vicious" tax that "should cause concern in every editor's office." The Liberal Victoria Times called it "a discriminatory and authoritarian measure," the Vancouver News-Herald saw it as "a stride toward censorship," and the London Free Press, taking note of a similar affair on the other side of the border (see below), pointed out that "the same government which protested to the U.S. against discriminatory action against a Canadian brewery in Maryland is now discriminating against reading material from abroad...
Before the Navy match, the varsity will play Duke University April 7, and coach Jack Barnaby hopes that the team will hit its stride by this date so that it will be ready for Navy, an Eastern League match two days later. Navy is expected to have a strong squad, but the varsity will be favored if it develops well on the trip...