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...pass defense looked strong--two intercepted passes--and the defensive ends consistently bottled up the halfback sweeps. And when the B.C. fullback made it past Stanley Greenridge at middle guard, linebacker Don Chiofaro was there to drag him down...
...present the proposition seems assured of victory, recent polls indicating a 60-40 vote. The concerted Democratic Party effort is shaving that margin, but not quickly enough. Only two realistic questions remain: (1)when the State Court eventually throw out the measure? (2) Will the "Yes on 14" vote drag Salinger and other Democratic candidates to defeat...
...been tried experimentally but never used in an operational airplane. When the wings are fully extended, they have hardly any sweepback, and the airplane looks oddly oldfashioned. In this condition it will fly with old-fashioned slowness. Then, as speed increases, the wings are swept backward, reducing lift and drag, and permitting speed to increase still more...
...character in Albert Camus' The Plague devised a strategy for cheating death by making life seem to drag on as long as possible: he did tedious things on purpose, like listening to lectures in an unfamiliar language or lining up at the box office for theater tickets and then not buying a seat. Since French literary inbreeding is both chronic and severe, it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would devote a whole book to Camus' throwaway idea. J.M.G. Le Clezio has in effect done just that, in a first novel that has unaccountably enraptured the French...
Polo & Headhunting. Macapagal's nation, after 18 years of independence, is an odd admixture of Spanish and American cultures. Crew-cut kids in pastel hot-rods drag for beers along Manila's broad, sleepy Roxas Boulevard. In the back streets, men smoking fat, green cigars bet on cockfights and hard-fought jai alai matches. One church has "Ave Maria" picked out in electric lights above the door. Manila's eleven daily newspapers (six in English) crackle with scare headlines reporting the latest murders, rapes and pirate raids (which still occur at a rate of one a week...