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...attackmen are the Crimson's John Ince, the league's scoring leader in 1968, and Cornell's first team All-American Mark Webster, who led all Ivy scorers last year, when Ince was runner-up. So far, in two games and one exhibition. Webster has 15 goals...
Ince differs from Webster in that he is primarily a feeder from behind the cage, and therefore gets assists more often than goals. When he shoots, it is generally a result of circling the net and stuffing the ball into one of the corners, usually on a pass from outside...
...answer is elusive because efficiency is one of those relative values that are difficult to pin down. Webster's calls it "effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost in energy, time and money." Anyone who attempts to apply that definition can turn up some odd results. Harvard Researcher Ann Carter has been measuring the efficiency of various U.S. industries by gauging the amounts of capital and labor needed to produce a dollar's worth of glass, insurance, hotel service and so on. By these purely statistical standards, efficiency is rising fastest in the telephone and telegraph...
...ranks of former nuns will be joined by 315 members of Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart Community, including its president and former Mother General, Sister Anita Caspary (see box, page 55). Five years ago, the nation's most publicized advocates of convent renewal were Sister Jacqueline Grennan of Missouri's Webster College and Sister Charles Borromeo Muckinhern of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. Both have since left the religious life. Sister Jacqueline is now Mrs. Paul Wexler and the new president of Manhattan's Hunter College...
...Defined by Webster's as "a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction of equipment." American Motors' definition: "a pal to its friends and an ogre to its enemies...