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...eleven passes for 108 yds. and one touchdown. Next week it was Minnesota, and Myers threw four more touchdown passes in the 34-22 victory. His protection is often erratic, but he rarely gets rattled under fire. Ohio State tried to red-dog him, and when that failed to daunt Myers, Coach Woody Hayes ordered his defense to fan back and double-team Northwestern's receivers. Myers still completed 18 of 30 passes, and the Wildcats, behind 14-0 in the first quarter, roared back to win, 18-14. Says Halfback Paul Flatley, who caught a Myers pass...
...they get commissions. Compared with the Navy as a whole, 30 times more Rickover sailors become officers. "You lose 20% of your people," growled one sub commander last week as he stared at a couple of CPOs hunched over books as well as black coffee. That fails to daunt "the admiral," as he is called without further identification. Says Rickover: "The main thing is that the men have been taught to think. It just shows what we can do with all our youngsters...
This official biography by British Author James Pope-Hennessy may daunt some Americans, but those who are prepared to penetrate the thickets of multiple names and ever-shifting titles will read a coolly shrewd account of a woman remarkable in her own right, and survey a stretch of history lit with the kind of irony that only the truly simple-minded shed upon great events. May was a square...
Philosophy 138a, "European Existentialism," by its very nature, seems destined to attract a certain number of mid-morning auditors, dilettantes, and "fourth course" seekers. But if Emerson D were entirely filled by curious, rather than "serious" philosophy students, it would not daunt Professor William Earle...
...near the Hungarian border. A thick mist scummed the windshields as the 39-car motorcade rolled eastward under the grey sky toward Andau, a scant kilometer from the border. The mud was ankle-deep along the roadside, and the heavy mist was raw and penetrating. The weather failed to daunt the 300-odd refugees gathered at the camp, and it equally failed to daunt the Vice President of the U.S. who stepped from the car, trim and neat in black shoes, black suit and black Homburg...