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Within a few seconds, his oar was stubbornly refusing to come out of the murky water on the recovery, and within another moment or two, his feet were becoming unusually wet. It was the Titanic disaster all over again. The proud new Joseph Burk shell, christened just three hours before, was sinking on its maiden voyage, and with it, any hope Pennsylvania had of spoiling Harvard's best afternoon in five years...
...Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment stands at 1,167,000, or 6.1% of the working force. Housing is so limited that every city has its shack dwellers-while Italy has a surplus of empty luxury apartments. Hospitals are desperately overcrowded; schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students...
...children. Is it too much to ask that these films not be made? We do not need any more laws governing what can be shown and what cannot; but we can all place some pressure on producers and distributors to stop offering us fascist propaganda and sado-masochistic wet dreams. If we do not, we may soon find our screens completely filled with screaming faces, broken teeth, and rivers of red, red blood...
Sophmore Rick Rojas, a steady performer all year, made two outstanding efforts in the mile and two mile, but lost both. "He was outkicked in both races. His endurance is his forte rather than flat speed, and it was impossible for him to pace himself on such a wet track." McCurdy explaines...
...didn't want to flaunt my transgression. When the shower wasn't working right, I would go over to tell him, picking my way carefully among squealing children and slippery spots. It was impossible to go at more than a snail's pace, because the floors were always wet and a bit slimy, made of smooth red tile. The walls sweated from the humid air, and on crowded days you couldn't even see from one end of the pool to the other for all the steam...