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...perfection of fundamentals. Admits the Baron: "Of course, we get good boys here at Kentucky. Every boy in the state, from the time he's born, lives for the day he can play at the university." Once Rupp gets his players, he drills them endlessly and without letup. They live together in the same dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving his all. "Boy," he will holler sarcastically, "give that ball to someone who knows what to do with...
...September's end it was clear to Red China that there would be no cheap victory at Quemoy. On Oct. 6 the Communists declared their first cease-fire-"out of humanitarian considerations," as they put it. The Nationalists coolly used the letup to unload tens of thousands of tons on Quemoy. On Oct. 20 the Communists canceled the ceasefire, laid down erratic shellfire until Nov. 3, when they put down about 40,000 shells in a bombardment that had so little military meaning that U.S. observers conclude it must have been aimed at U.S. voters...
...U.D.N. harvested more than 3,000,000 votes, nearly enough to have won the presidency three years ago. What about 1960? Juracy shrugs off the idea as "premature." His big aim right now is to put an end to Brazil's rigged economy. But there will be no letup in the campaign for votes. "We are returning to the streets and to direct contact with the people. Nobody ever loses trusting the people...
...signs that runaway inflation is not a present danger do not mean that inflation is dead forever. But barring another Korea, or a letup in the Federal Reserve Board's vigilance over monetary policies, most economists feel that the price level will be stable for at least a year...
Fresh Fruit Salad. At 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 3 Nautilus made it. And just as the North Pole was history, it was also routine as the measuring of never-known-before statistics went on without letup. The water temperature at the North Pole, Nautilus found, was 32°F. The sea depth there was 13,410 ft., exactly 1,927 ft. deeper than previously estimated. An electrician's mate first class was sworn in for re-enlistment-the first man, the Navy pointed out, who had ever re-enlisted at the North Pole. Eleven new crewmen got their...