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...British raj, which once controlled India's northwest frontier province of Kashmir, exacted a token annual tribute of two Kashmiri shawls and three handkerchiefs from the maharajah. Never since has the price of peace been as small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution...
Tiger halfbacks often offered only token opposition to the Crimson press: Tiger passing was sloppy, its offense impotent. ("We're not as bad as we look," said the Princeton coach.) When the Tiger line managed to blunder through Harvard halfbacks Emmanual Boye, Fred Churchill, and Larry Coburn. Crimson fullback Lou Williams consistently blasted the ball 30 yards upfield to the Harvard line. With Williams and Terry Winslow clearing loose balls, goalie Wally Whitney had to make only one desperate save. He threw himself at a hard shot to the corner of the goal and batted the ball down for Williams...
...Democratic incumbents, Rep. John J. Campbell and Rep. John Sennott, re-election may not be as easy as in many previous contests, because this year Campbell and Sennott face more than token opposition...
Dartmouth's scalping raid takes place in the Yale Bowl this week. The Yalies, who could only manage a tie against Colgate, may be able to put up some limited resistance, but it is apt to be only token...
...their later years is to be sure that the advice was right. As noted, the statement may not apply to some gifted young scientists in the first bewitchment of their powers, but it applies surely to future physicians destined to concern for their fellow men and, by the same token, to men in other fields. What the liberal education basically seeks is not a fast start in a man's twenties but traction and opening scope in his thirties and later, College resembles the circles that bees make before homing to their course; the wider the circles, the truer...