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Dartmouth's valiants galloped into sixth place in syndicated columnist George Nadel's "Top Ten Worst Teams in the Nation" with a 128-86 loss to North Carolina, and defended their station with honor till the season closed...
...since the trust-busting days of 1907. Yet the laws forbidding such practices, observes Ashland Oil Inc. Board Chairman Orin E. Atkins, are primarily "honored in the breach." Atkins has reason to know. He heads one of seven major U.S. corporations* that have admitted dipping unlawfully into the company till for contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Last week executives from six of the firms testified before the Senate Watergate committee, providing a rare glimpse into the details of high-level political financing...
...plan, or was he simply doing what came naturally?) Much of the material, moreover as Schlesinger notes, is at least a thrice-told tale. (It is hard these days to say anything entirely new about the presidency.) But no one has followed the development of presidential power, from Truman till the present, in such authoritative detail...
...condemned. Harvard is a notice-board city, where a mimeograph machine and a meeting are the two best avenues of communication. A woman who works to finance her husband's education is not likely to be doing fascinating comrade-producing work. A community that has a two-years-or-till-the-Ph.D.-is-done significance is not a true community at all. She, more than any, needs to reap the benefits of the meeting and the mimeo...
...past six years, Egyptian soldiers have been using the irrigation canals of the Nile Valley as training ground for the attack they some day expected to make across the Suez. Explains one Egyptian military man: "Our men bridged those canals again and again and again, till they reached the point that crossing a canal was simple. On Oct. 6, the only difference was that across this canal was the real enemy." Within 72 hours, the Egyptians managed to move more than 70,000 troops and an estimated 500 to 700 tanks to the eastern bank-a remarkable logistical feat...