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Yale clinched at least a tie for the Ivy League title Saturday as the Bulldogs knocked off Princeton, 19-6, at New Haven. Penn rallied to whip Columbia, and Dartmouth killed a late Cornell rally to hold on for the victory...
...disagree sharply about the cause of the earth's cooling and whether it will continue. But a flood of observations by weather satellites and other new instruments show its major effect: a gradual expansion in recent years of the so-called circumpolar vortex-the great icy winds that whip around the top and bottom of the world. Those winds move generally from west to east, but the outer edge of the vortex twists and bends, like the bottom of a large, swirling skirt. In the U.S. Far West, for instance, the winds bring down cold, dry Arctic air; thus...
Puking Hypocrisy. The delay and the growing debate led some Republicans to accuse Democrats of letting the nomination simmer for partisan reasons. Said Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin of Michigan: "It's hard to tell where the serious questions about this nomination leave off and the politics begin." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called the controversy "mewling and puking hypocrisy" and added: "I don't think that he ought to be convicted for his generosity...
Both teams have new coaches this year. Harvard's George ford has been able to whip his players into form in a surprisingly short time, while the Big Green's Tom Griffith has been suffering the breaking-in blues...
Recruiting Effort. "Grow more and waste less," he urged. "Drive less, heat less." Wearing a red-and-white lapel button reading "WIN"-for Whip Inflation Now-he called "upon every American to join in this massive mobilization and stick with it until we do win as a nation and as a people." At White House request, newspapers the next day printed an enlistment form for "inflation fighters"; the first 100,000 people to fill out the form and mail it to the White House will get a free WIN button...