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Assessing the team's assets and liabilities, Portfolio said that the prospects depend largely on whether the squad's left side will jell early in the campaign. Traditionally, Harvard has had a potent right flank, but, as many experts have observed, "the left side is 75 per cent of the game...
Thanks to his wartime record and his cool professionalism, Moorer, at 45, became the youngest man ever to be promoted to admiral. He has been steaming ahead at flank speed ever since. And most Navymen agree that he has even brighter prospects ahead. Said CINCPAC's Admiral Sharp last week: "Tom is an outstanding candidate for the next Chief of Naval Operations...
Omar Bradley, Matt Ridgwayand Max Taylor, Nate Twining and Curt LeMay, Arthur Radford and Arleigh Burke-the very names still conjure up images of flaming cannon, of contrails across enemy skies, of destroyers heading into battle at flank speed. It detracts nothing from their successors to say that the names of "Bus" Wheeler, "Johnny" Johnson, "Dave" McDonald, "J. P." McConnell and "Wally" Greene are hardly household words...
...singing Bach's Mass in B Minus. I become aware of a faint pulsing rhythm out of time with the music. El Forbes continues to conduct, but the pulse grows louder, more intense--it is obviously the sound of marching feet and many hoarse voices shouting. Suddenly a flank of students rounds the corner of Widener. I can hear their chant now as they bust through the lines of the Glee Club, and enter Widener...
...Monticello College's $2,000,000 Hatheway Hall in Godfrey, Ill., combines physical culture with the other kind: a swimming pool and a gymnasium flank the 1,000-seat auditorium. Finished in October 1963, the "theatron," as it is called because of its steeply banked seats arranged Romanstyle around the central arena, is used for lectures and student activities of this small junior college for women, as well as for performances and civic affairs of the community...