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...anonymous old grad confessed, "No, I am not a rabid Brown football supporter--only hell-bent for a victorious season...
Rodd's tally, scored off a fine cross by wing Mike Kramer, climaxed a sustained Crimson onslaught that produced several agonizing near misses. Dartmouth's three- and four-fullback defense, backed by Ellington's acrobatie goaltending, held off the Crimson's attack until it seemed that no amount of hell-bent scrambling would break the 1-1 deadlock...
...idea seemed to be that Jânío was hell-bent to achieve a totally independent position halfway between the U.S. and the Communist bloc, and would brook no argument. Late in the week, he announced that Brazil might well vote both for Red China's admission to the United Nations and the Khrushchev plan to "reorganize" the U.N. into complete impotence. As for the rumbling all this aroused among some politicians and military men, Quadros vowed, "There are only two ways to block my course: to depose me or assassinate...
...team N.B.A. has become a truly national league. N.B.A. attendance, which jumped 23% last year, is up another 20% so far this season. Robertson's Royals, although last in their division, have already doubled last year's total attendance. Each weekend NBC-TV brings the pros' hell-bent skills into 12 million homes across the nation. From its TV contract the N.B.A. makes well over $500,000 and the league is comfortably in the black. Says N.B.A. President Maurice Podoloff, a 5-ft. 3-in. man who looks round and bouncy enough to dribble: "The public certainly...
Charlie Halleclc: An ambitious rival, Halleck had come to Congress in the first place hell-bent on running for President, Vice President, Speaker, or whatever else opportunity might put in his way. Charlie is always available. I regarded him as neither a popular choice nor a man who could provide the kind of leadership the party needed. I overlooked the diligent activity of lobbyists of the automobile industry, the business organizations and the beef trust, who were scurrying all over town trying to line up votes for Halleck...