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Sponsored by the Boston-based Intercollegiate Chinese Student Social Committee, the tenth annual tournament will host 74 teams, including three from Harvard, for matches in men's and women's volleyball and men's basketball, to be held in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...that ship was laid a year after he was born. Now he was managing the Midway and her sister ships, helping to devise a new American defense. "I could go out and make money," he mused. But then, with great relish, he added: "It would not be one-tenth as much...
...Government figures last week showed that the economy remains very weak. Retail sales in August declined nearly 1%, after a revised 1.2% increase in July, and industrial production dropped .5% in August for the tenth decline in the past twelve months...
...behind him. He was, in that way, a victim of orthodox modernist thinking-which tended^ to suppose that his art had not "evolved" beyond its representational purposes, toward abstraction. In the late 1950s, when Avery was 70 and at the peak of his talent, his prices were about one-tenth of Pollock's. (They still are, but Pollock's now cost millions...
...TENTH: The successful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis was fundamentally the achievement of two men, John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev. We know that in this anniversary year John Kennedy would wish us to emphasize the contribution of Khrushchev; the fact that an earlier and less prudent decision by the Soviet leader made the crisis inevitable does not detract from the statesmanship of his change of course. We may be forgiven, however, if we give the last and highest word of honor to our own President, whose cautious determination, steady composure, deep-seated compassion and, above all, continuously...