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...unlike himself as possible. No doubt in the course of a month or two, when he begins to pick up a few of the lines of the part, he will improve on his first effort; but he will never be an even moderately good Falstaff...All this is hopeless, irremediable...
...Republican presidential nomination. Backers got him on the primary ballots in Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon, where he won 23% of the vote against Nixon. Afterward Reagan toured several states to drum up support. At the Republican National Convention in Miami, however, he soon realized that his cause was hopeless and withdrew. Two years later he was re-elected Governor but decided that he would not run again; he had long said that no one should serve more than two terms in that office...
Keeping resuscitated but dying patients alive can cost as much as $500 a day, hospital administrators say, and a hospital can incur more severe costs by allotting its special but limited equipment to such hopeless patients. Allowing such patients to die is a necessary and humane process, they argue...
Vietnam became a debacle because two American presidents refused to be the first ones to "lose" a war, hopeless and wasteful as it might have been. We had to have "Peace with honor." The need to win is ingrained in the American character...
While Jim Kubacki & Co. was sticking it to Brown Saturday, Yale set the stage for next week's Big Game with a 24-13 victory at Princeton, Dartmouth drilled winless, hopeless Cornell, 33-10, at Hanover and Columbia downed Penn, 28-24, at New York...