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Cannon, whose father works as a custodian in a Louisiana State dormitory, sold pop and peanuts at L.S.U. football games as a kid, naturally enrolled at the university desoite the 50 offers he drew as a high school All-America. A predental student (B average) with a wife and three daughters, Cannon may well be the strongest fast man, or the fastest strong man, in the world. Square and solid (6 ft. 1 in., 207 Ibs.), he puts the shot 54 ft. 4½ in. (world record: 63 ft. 4 in.), rips off the hundred in 9.4 sec. (world record...
...M.I.T. Institute Committee has voted 8 to 4 to withdraw from the National Student Association. The decision, postponed for a month, was reached Friday night after a two-hour discussion between the Committee, Donald Hoffman, president of NSA, and Harold Bakken, a former president...
...these arguments, maintaining that NSA is, at present, incapable of any significant accomplishment, and that only a sustained and vigorous effort from several member colleges could make it worthwhile. "Apparently no one at Tech is willing to make this effort," commented Christopher Sprague '60, president of the M.I.T. student body...
Hour exam season, which reliable sources say is upon us, is not the time for somber flicks of the Ingmar Bergman, Pather Panchali vein. When the temporarily industrious student forsakes his books for two hours at the Brattle or the U.T., he doesn't want to be provoked, moved or disturbed. He wants and needs to be diverted and amused. With remarkable judgment, the Brattle has managed to select a film for this week which not only accomplishes these ends but also is an intelligent and witty commentary on our times...
...major source of interest in Statistics, according to Pratt, would be as part of a combined field involving social relations, biology, economics, mathematics, geology, psychology, medicine, or others. He said a request was received from a student last spring to concentrate in Statistics and linguistical mathematics...