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Rapp used up valuable minutes at the start of the final period with a slow but eventually fruitless ground game, and when the Crimson finally got the ball on its own 28 coach John Yovicsin sent in the hero of the Dartmouth contest, Bill Humenuk, to try to save The Game...
...days thereafter, Romney held long and fruitless meetings with members of both parties. He had little success with conservative Republicans and even less with Democrats. In one dramatic confrontation with about 40 House and Senate Democrats in his office, Romney declared: "I'm prepared to discuss with you any changes that you think will make the bill acceptable to you." Replied Democratic Lieutenant Governor T. John Lesinski: "We will not write your program. It is the responsibility of the executive to provide leadership. We stand ready to assist." Snapped Romney: "I'm not asking Democrats to write...
...turned out, Khrushchev's information was slightly stale. After a month of fruitless haggling, the Russians had indeed been on the verge of calling the whole deal off early last week. Their main complaint was a provision that the wheat must move in U.S. ships, whose rates were as much as $10 a ton higher than foreign rates...
Finally the Dartmouth defense which had held opponents to an average of 60 yards a game before Saturday began to stiffen. But after two fruitless exchanges of the football, a 60-yard van Oudenallen punt put Dartmouth on its own 20. A frustrated Tom Spangenberg, Dartmouth's excellent halfback who has been injured a good part of the season, crashed into the Harvard line once too often...
...often fruitless to predict what type of President a man will be from his past record. John F. Kennedy, for one, has hardly been a paragon of consistency. But Barry Goldwater seems a different sort of politician. There is no objection from his opponents that he does not say what he means. Rather they fear that he means what he says...