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...Bolles last night said that he had heard nothing official about Yale's decision, but that he "had heard some rumors about that sort of thing." It is known that Bolles himself is not in favor of the complete abolition of spring practice. He regards it as a symptom and not a deep seated cause of football's "professionalism disease...
...Church of England is the world's most notable balance of two separate traditions: Catholic and Protestant. Now & again, the balance is strained. Latest symptom: high-church Anglo-Catholics, who object to being called Protestants, have been bucking hard at all suggestions of closer cooperation with Britain's Protestant "Free Churches" (Methodists, Congregationalists...
...psychologist. Today, "a lazy student who receives a failing grade is likely to be diagnosed as 'maladjusted.' Similarly, the 'welladjusted' personality rates high in any listing of virtues. The term 'well-integrated personality' is beginning to appear on recommendations, always an ominous symptom...
What Madrileños really wanted for their money was not bulls, but beef. The ruckus at the ring, in defiance of Franco's rule, was another symptom of Spain's rising anger with the Franco administration. Its chief causes: high prices, black marketeers and official corruption. The strike wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses...
...only tyrannizes the minds of the public, it haunts the practitioner, whose professional capacity is rated according to the skill with which he applies the formula. There is something still worse; mass medicine, socialized, mechanized to excess, tends to substitute an even more deceitful equation: 'Symptom b equals drug...