Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today Ohiri will have some help on the offense and Amherst will need a new strategy. Sophomore Hugh Polk and center forward Cormac O'Malley are good enough to keep the Jeffs from using gang tactics against Ohiri, who has been moved to inside right. In his new position, Ohiri will be harder to box in and less vulnerable to Amherst's magic circle of defensemen...
...corps, with uniforms and rifles, they are ecstatic. In his daydreams, young John Curlew shoots down a squadron of Nazis in his plane, cleans out a machine-gun nest with a single grenade, gets the Victoria Cross from Winston Churchill, and wins the adulation of the rest of the gang. In reality the other boys despise him for his friendship with Mark Stein, a Jewish refugee from Austria who is attending the school...
...spoiling for excitement, the boys challenge a rival gang to a fight. Stein becomes frightened and runs away; Lewis, the gang leader, decrees that he must be court-martialed and shot. Stein is shown the rifles and the live ammunition, and is blindfolded. Blank cartridges are loaded into the guns-or are they all blanks? This climactic tragedy brings on the only good scenes in the film-scenes in which the raw horror of their deed gives macabre substance to the performances of the adolescent cast. The point, as in another current film about British schoolboys, Lord of the Flies...
After error in "gang-punching" the conversion of raw test scores, 25 of the 150 freshmen taking the Spanish placement test last Wednesday were informed incorrectly that they had fulfilled their language requirement. The Office of Tests will notify these freshman today that they had actually, in the harsh and cold statistical world of the computer, failed their tests...
...panic-stricken collapse that cost them the pennant in 1962. Since Labor Day, the Dodgers have been playing .715 baseball. The excitement came from the St. Louis Cardinals, who last won a pennant in 1946, and in recent years have been a pale shadow of the great Gashouse Gang of the '30s. The experts picked Manager Johnny Keane's Cards for fifth place. But now, ready for a fateful three-game series with the Dodgers this week, they were only a few steps behind and playing impossible baseball-winners of 17 of their last 18 games...