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With Jeff Hall, a good bunter, at the plate, Harvard tried to widen its 3-1 lead with a suicide squeeze bunt -- a play that won the Penn game last Saturday. But this time Hall missed, and the suicide was on. Hootstein was tagged out in a rundown, and the alert Lions caught Lord off first, to clear the bases with an unusual double play...
...Vacations. For all the gains that Callaghan proudly pointed to, Britain is not yet clear of some economic shoals. The government still owes another $1.4 billion to the IMF, which will come due in 1970. The trade gap is far from permanently closed. And lately it has begun to widen, largely because the U.S., on whom Britain depends to absorb its stepped-up exports, has problems of its own and is buying less. Unemployment, while leveling off some, is still 2%; the Selective Employment Tax that was supposed to force workers out of service jobs into manufacturing has plainly...
...mark, it is useless to pretend that it is much of a provocative humor magazine. Like all Lampoonsthis issue has a few strong points, but the magazine needs more visual pep-cartoons, maybe photographs-and a less staid layout. But basically, what the 'Poon needs is more talent to widen the nucleus of good writers which has kept a spark of life in this year's issues...
...Third we must continue and widen our initiative on these critical matters on which there is, at present, such deep dissatisfaction throughout the country...
...this country by 1970 will have directly influenced, in some way or other, over 50,000,000 people around the world. And if each one of these 50,000,000 passes along a little of his understanding to his friends and neighbors, then the circle of impact will widen beyond comprehension." Lest the mind grow dizzy at the calculations, it may be best to point out that the overwhelming majority of returned Volunteers are satisfied with what they themselves learned; as for the millenium, they appear willing to let that take care of itself