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U.C.L.A. lacks Michigan muscle and height, but has managed to compile a 26-2 record this year with excellent ball-handling, an adhesive zone press, and the consistent shooting of Gall Goodrich and Keith Erickson. Goodrich, a Lilliputian 6-1, is averaging 23 points per game and has sunk 54 per cent of his field goal attempts this year...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: The NCAA's: Princeton All the Way! | 3/18/1965 | See Source »

Having opened its season with a 98-67 romp over American International UConn then whipped Yale, 68 to 47. The Huskies have more speed and shooting ability than they possessed last season, but for the first time in years they are not an overwhelmingly big club. Kimball is no Lilliputian, but the graduation of 6 ft., 11. in center Ed Slomcenski leaves him the only big man on the starting five...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: How Good Is the Basketball Squad? Connecticut Game Tonight Will Tell | 12/9/1964 | See Source »

...Western eyes, Red China seems a Gulliver tied hand and foot by its own deficiencies. In Mao's dreams, China is a giant that first stood up when the Communists took power in 1949, and already towers militarily over the Lilliputian nations of Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Self-Bound Gulliver | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little Romper roommates sit down for their cookies and milk, they say, "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food." As for integration, it's a local matter, according to Claster, but he says that in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The World's Largest Kindergarten | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...clash of opinion extends to virtually every aspect of the frustrating, wearisome war in South Viet Nam-and reflects its shadowy, hide-and-seek nature. It is a war with no front lines and no decisive battles; a war of containment, not of conquest; a war of Lilliputian pinpricks and Brobdingnagian stakes. It is a day war and a night war, in which the government controls most highways and waterways by daylight (though a U.S. lieutenant and two Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a daylight roadside ambush last week), and the Viet Cong slip in from jungles and swamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Pinprick War | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

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