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...compensate for his crumbling protection, Whittier has been forced to abandon his accustomed game plan. As he scrambles around in his own backfield, he's had to make some hasty improvisations in his offensive stance. And as each play brings the eager tacklers closer, Whittier digs deeper and deeper into his bag of trick plays in an attempt to elude the pursuit. But Whittier, as crafty a veteran as he is, is running out of tricks...
...Abandon all hopes of a date with British Actor Albert Finney or Spanish Bullfighter El Cordobes. Chances are that they-along with more than 200 million other Europeans-will be watching a football game: the European Cup soccer final...
...whether all showings of Casablanca are for educational purpose. I cannot, however, let pass his aspersions on my sentimentality. I am, Sir, a man who weeps at the playing of the Marseillaise each time he sees Casablanca (fourteen times, at most recent count), and I would gladly abandon my writs and demurrers to follow Ilsa Lund to the ends of the earth. I do not know who Mr. Berg may have in mind as a man whose heart is his least vulnerable spot. I suggest he round up the usual suspects. James A. Sharaf...
...Army-bound O'Brien, there were agonizing decisions to be made. He wondered if it was the morally courageous choice to abandon his country rather than join it in making unjust...
Rosovsky intends to follow President Bok's priorities which have recently turned towards undergraduate education. "I am not in favor of seeing Harvard as primarily a graduate school," he said, but he noted that he would not abandon the problems of graduate education...