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...backfield men have also seen backer-up service in the weeks of practice. Mel Freedman, who moved up from the Jayvees in mid-season last year, has proved durable in the position; and Phil Isenburg, a scrappy lightweight, has also worked out behind the line. Both Freedman and Isenburg are quarterbacks...
Like a cat smiling at a canary, Russia usually plans her shrewdest moves behind an expression of blandest virtue. A year ago she graciously offered to withdraw her occupation forces from North Korea provided the U.S. did the same in the south. In many parts of the East and elsewhere, the gesture went down as a magnanimous one. It put the U.S. on the spot. Washington could not match the Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army...
...northern France) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied. The narrator tells nothing of what makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
Fullbacks Chip Gannon, Paul Shafer, and Sam Adams will have to spin with their eyes closed before the more intricate plays can be worked in. "We're a little behind schedule on offense," Valpey reports, "although we may know our fundamentals better than some of the other Ivy colleges...
Fullbacks Chip Gannon, Paul Shafer and Sam Adams will have to spin with their eyes closed before the more intricate plays can be worked in. "We're a little behind schedule on offense," Valpey reports, "although we may know our fundamentals better than some of the other Ivy colleges...