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Herring & Hot Plates. This year's crop of Americans in Russia comes from campuses as diverse as Berkeley and Emory. Most students are in their early 30s; all speak Russian. Topics of study tend to be esoteric: Russian comment on the French Encyclopedist Diderot, peasant self-government after the emancipation of the serfs, the attitude of the Czarist gentry to peasant reform. The predominant hoariness of the subjects is partly a result of Russian reluctance to open archives on recent events, for in Soviet practice, as one American put it, "What is history today may be non-history tomorrow...
Some Britons who tend to demand new station houses and an end to deficits in the same breath sniff at "Dr. Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...
When Ohiri plays center forward both teams tend to bunch in front of the enemy goal; against Princeton the Crimson line found holes through which to score. O'Malley hooked a loose ball through such an opening for Harvard's sixth goal. As the ball floated slowly past the goalie, Ohiri gave it a second thrust with a diving head that left him sprawled eagle-fashion in the goal...
Morale should be the key against the weak Tiger booters. With Ohiri out of the front line, the Crimson will be able to test its passing and teamwork, something they tend to forget when feeding the Nigerian star. The threat of a losing season may spark the Cantabrigians to a winning effort, something they became much too accustomed to with last year's championship team...
...much. Said one: "In meeting Rickover's standards, you won't lose any ships-they'll all be perfect-but the larger question is: Will you ever get any ships?" Recognizing that the admiral has obviously got his ships, officials in the Defense Department for once tend to side with its outspoken Rickover, feel that the performance of defense contractors would improve markedly if there were stiffer penalties for shoddy work and higher rewards for jobs well done...