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...serious deficiency exists in the teaching of African history, the survey revealed. Out of the 77 institutions--including all the Ivy League schools, a number of large universities like Chicago and Stanford, and topnotch small colleges like Amherst--only eight have courses in African history...
...International Judo Federation came to a much more logical conclusion: it decided to divide contestants into four weight classes for the 1964 Olympics. "The days are gone," said Novelist Tsuneo Tomita, himself a topnotch judoist, "when judo provided Japanese with a source of childish self-satisfaction in the thought that a small guy can always beat a big fellow...
Navy is one of the Crimson's four big challenges this year. Dartmouth is another--it is also an away meet, and the Indians have the advantage of their own pool, which visiting teams find disconcerting. A third is Princeton. The Tigers, who this year boast a topnotch breaststroker in Gardiner Green and an excellent backstroker in Jed Graef, as well as the best diving in the Ivy League, could give the Crimson trouble...
BEACON HILL: ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS, winner of 27 major film awards is here, and any film that wins that many awards just can't miss. It's sordid and it's long, but it is also a powerful and significant film. Acting, especially by Alain Delon, is consistently topnotch...
...keep TV executives afloat in martinis. Where could the network find another fellow with all the father owl appearance of Garroway and his special air of wisdom? The network did not try, instead delivered an intelligent surprise last week by replacing Garroway not with a "personality" but with a topnotch newsman. NBC's choice is John Chancellor, who has spent his career in the NBC news department, has recently been the network's bureau chief in Moscow and is at least as well informed on most subjects as Garroway...