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With the exception of right end Adam Rakowski, the Light Blue will field an all-Senior starting lineup tomorrow. Bill Lockwood will be on the other flank, Gene Shekitka will be at center, Charles Klomovitch and Joe Karas will man the guard posts, and Clyde Hampton and Henry Briggs are the tackles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lion Football Team Hits Town Today | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

Traditionally versatile, Harvard's ends may do just about everything but sell peanuts this fall in the Stadium. The tipoff on just how strong his flank-men are came when Art Valpey switched tall Tom Guthrie, former first-string end at Notre Dame, to tackle when the 230-pound transfer student reported for practice earlier this month...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Crimson Ends Can Run, Kick, Block, Tackle, and Catch Passes--We Hope | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...Brazilian diplomats, whose nation has long been the fair-haired hemispheric boy of U.S. military planning. The U.S. had no intention of abandoning so old and strategically located a friend as Brazil. But planners in the Pentagon, thinking in terms of securing the U.S.'s southern flank, figured that Argentina is the most powerful nation in Latin America, and that Washington would do well to be on the good side of its army leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Red Carpet | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chest-Thumper | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Secretary of State George Marshall could now feel that a real move had been made toward securing the U.S.'s southern flank. Now he could-and must-turn back to a Western Europe that faced Russia on much closer terms. The following afternoon he stood up abruptly. "I have to return to Washington," he said; ". . . the pressure of important matters there demands my return ... I leave with a feeling that we have met in an atmosphere of genuine cooperation." Then he was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Reds on the Run? | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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