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Freshman Chris O'Hiri could cause excitement in the broad jump and dash. O'Hiri set a Freshman record 22 ft., 6 1/2 in. against M.I.T. before he called a leg muscle, and two days later, injury and all, cleared 22 ft., 3 in. on his only attempt to take a first against...
...crafty talent for wedding the ridiculous to the dramatic, he might easily become an important prose bard. But Ustinov wants to write. While he did reasonably well in his engaging 1957 comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, he failed badly last year in his book of short stories. Add a Dash of Pity. To his credit, Ustinov refuses to quit: he has written a first novel...
...hours captured wounded Captain Miranda with ten men. ¶Near Cienfuegos, five minutes after a Cubana Airlines DC-3 took off northward to Havana, 140 miles away, four men and two women passengers produced guns and tried to force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province, where the government had earlier reported a complete cleanout of the Sierra Escambray rebel bands, militia and artillery moved into the hills for a new assault...
...show-after a sprightly start-skitters irresolutely about in a diversity of moods on a variety of subjects, now proffering a dash of pageantry and now a dab of legend, now sending off Merlin early, now calling in Mordred late, here with some medieval jousting, there with a too modern joke. As a result, the comedy comes to sit a little uneasily while everything else is kept standing and shifting its feet. When at length there is no place for comedy and the story moves toward its stormy sunset and final clash of arms, what has been brokenly...
...high jump and the 40-yard dash were the only winning events for the Terriers; the Crimson took the lead with a first and third in the opening event, the mile, and continued to pile up the score all night...