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...down the field in the last three games. Flynn's passing is complemented by probably the best backfield in the Ivy League. Hank Bjorklun, a momentum runner who hits his holes quickly, is averaging 123 yards rushing a game, and if he slows down, the defense will have to contend with two more excellent running backs, Doug Blake and Walt Snickenberger. Blake and Snickenberger are particularly effective as receivers slipping out of the backfield...
...indictment of the Soviet regime during the quarter of a century that Stalin ruled, while at the same time endorsing the goals of the Bolshevik revolution and acquitting Lenin of responsibility for the crimes committed by his successor. In answer to the question of why Lenin permitted Stalin to contend for power in the early '20s, Medvedev writes: "Lenin's natural enthusiasm for people often led him into mistakes." He also criticizes Lenin for recommending in 1922 that "extralegal justice" be used against opponents of the regime...
...only the most famous artist in history, he is also the richest. "Currency is worth less in Picasso's hands than a sheet of blank paper," remarked the English artist and critic Michael Ayrton, "and this condition promotes the problems with which the legendary Midas had to contend." Picasso can get anything by drawing for it. Shortly after World War II, he acquired one of his Midi villas, now relinquished, by exchanging it for a set of lithographs. His own collection of Picassos, several hundred oils (not counting his sculpture, much of which he has kept, his collection...
...four principal subsidy programs totaled $523 million. This year such subsidies will finance an estimated 30% of all housing starts at a cost of $1.4 billion, and by 1978, the annual figure could rise to $7.5 billion, according to Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney. Opponents of subsidization contend that it discriminates against middle-income consumers, ignores the very poor, and breeds fraud and shoddy workmanship...
...Humphrey was just too dim-wittedly good-humored to get a crack at the part. Not with a pro like Richard Milhous Nixon to contend with. For when it comes to being a stand-up-sit-down-fall-out comedian Mr. Nixon always was, still is, and always will be, as they say in the trade, a natural...