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Returning to the huddle, sophomore Tommy Winn catches his breath, readying himself for what he does best, running with the football. And people are beginning to realize just how adept he is at that--ask anyone who went to the Cornell game...
...recalled: "I kept expecting him to call from La Crosse and say 'Come over and pick us up.' " The first night the Kunsts made it 14 miles to Owatonna, then collapsed with sore feet in a city park. But gradually they toughened up and, equally important, became adept at hustling meals and lodging; they were presented with everything from cough drops by the Smith Brothers to two cases of C-rations by an Air Force colonel in Ankara. In Manhattan, they stayed for a week as guests of a Holiday Inn but caused some consternation when they brought...
...Sets of Values. At least 50,000 of Bade County's Cuban-Americans were born in the U.S., and are proving remarkably adept at absorbing American culture. Teen-agers in La Saguesera may delight in the café con leche and mediasnoches (Cuban sandwiches) of the garish, mirrored Versailles coffeehouse, but they are equally at home in more anglo surroundings; fútbol (soccer) is popular, but so are béisbol and fútbol americano. "Being a Cuban-American is having two sets of values," explains Raimundo Sacre, 16, who was brought...
...that she had ever counted on moving into the White House; it was not even a remote dream. Though adept at politics, she never reveled in it. When Ford was elected to Congress in 1948 and the pair moved to Washington, life began to close...
...verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something recognizably his own. He leaves no doubts that his intentions are completely serious. All centers of power are just as sickly farcical as Carlos' court, but all are finally more sickening...