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...very fast, and after eleven seasons he may even have lost a step or two. But he does have one advantage over defensive halfbacks who run the 100 in 9.5 sec.: "I know where I'm going-they don't." Daintily, he trotted out to the flank in his sneakers. The ball was snapped, and he ran straight up to Glass, dipped his right shoulder as if to cut toward the sideline, then whirled and streaked across the field-leaving Glass with his legs hopelessly crossed. Tittle threw-and for a long instant the ball seemed hopelessly...
...actual or threatened Viet Cong control. In the delta to the south, and in two or three provinces around Saigon, there is no doubt of who controls the boondocks. Of mounting concern is the Communists' increased hold on vital Long An province on Saigon's southern flank, where conditions have become precarious. A U.S. adviser says wryly that there is no need in Long An for the government's plan to abolish some of the overextended outposts. "The Viet Cong," he says, "are doing that for us." In a guerrilla war, it is often impossible to tell...
...Homer once worked as a 13?-an-hour lathe operator during summer vacation. It was as a World War I Navy lieutenant and pioneer submariner that he caught the eye of Bethlehem management at the company's shipyard in Quincy, Mass. After the war, he moved up at flank speed in Bethlehem Ship, became vice president in charge of it in 1940. During World War II, his 200,000-man force turned out 1,127 ships, from landing craft to aircraft carriers, a Homeric feat unequaled by any competitor. More than any other civilians, Homer and his then chief...
Though the British endorsed MLF when it was proposed as part of the Nassau pact last December, the government's domestic difficulties have since forced Harold Macmillan to back away from the project at flank speed. Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft objects that the scheme makes no military sense; his top military advisers point out that Britain could build three Polaris submarines of its own for the $360 million it would cost to join MLF. However, Foreign
Just as in both previous operations, the doctors put the transplanted kidney into the patient's flank. Nature's plumbing is so delicate and complex that the surgical feat of putting a transplanted kidney into its normal place in the human body would have been forbiddingly difficult. And the operation would have been so heroic that a patient as near death as Edith might not have survived...