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...League is tougher overall than it has been in recent years, and Harvard, while aiming to win the championship, won't have an easy time of it. The Crimson meets Dartmouth, Penn, and Princeton on the road in its first three Ivy League contests, and then plays them again at home to round out its first six contests...
Aint is a jumbled-up, quasi-Brechtian Harlem re-do of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Manhattan has grown seedier, in or out of Harlem, since Rice wrote. The people talk tougher now, and are more frantic, more terribly frustrated...
Princeton did a good job on Ed Marinaro, but a tougher-than-usual Cornell defense did a better one on the Tiger offensive machine at Ithaca Saturday. The Big Red won, 19-8, to gain its third victory of the season without a defeat. Big Ed was held to a meager 144 yards, lower than his first two performances by 100 yards...
...once again, the inmates' talk proved to be tougher than their acts...
...their greenhouse and stopped in every morning to give one member of each pair a brisk 30-second shaking. After 27 days of this routine, the shaken trees had grown only one-fifth as much as those left in peace, had put out fewer lateral branches and developed stouter, tougher trunks. Trees, conclude the authors, have evolved a supersensitive response to shaking, whether by a breeze or by hand. Thus, in any forest or glade, nature has ensured that the relatively delicate, fast-growing trees of the interior are guarded by a sturdy defense against the winds that buffet...