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...Listless pitching and poor hitting in the clutch cost the Crimson the victory. Pitchers Bob Kessler, Jim Fitzgibbons, and Bob Cooke allowed the Judges 13 hits. Kessler, the starter, left the game halfway through the second inning and reliefer Fitzgibbon was pulled out for a pinch-hitter in the eighth...
...soon turned into a wake. Old men and women shuffled along the platform, showing the P.W.s tiny scraps of paper that bore the names of still-missing sons. "He was in the army," they wailed. "Do you know him? Have you seen him?" There were few replies. The P.W.s, listless now and silent, just nibbled at their cakes and kept to themselves. The old ones turned sorrowing away, to wait for the next P.W. train from Panmunjom...
...scorer of B.U.'s last two teams, has left the Terriers in even worse straits, with only two lines playing most of the night. The game was unusual for a Harvard-B.U. contest, usually rough tussles in the past, as it was marked by only one penalty and listless hockey...
After seven years in battle, the French have assumed as much responsibility for Indo-China's military protection as the United States has for Korea's; France can hardly leave Indo-China until she has trained enough native troops to take over the war. The listless fighting of the Bao Dai forces has demonstrated that a guarantee of complete independence within a few years is the prerequisite to raising more troops. By undermining the appeal of the Communist anti-imperialist slogans, this promise would also weaken the Red clutch on crucial Northern Viet-Nam. Not only pride out conscience should...
...city machines, which once whirred Democrats to victory, have become backfiring rattletraps. There is no indication that anyone with any effective tools in hand is looking under the hood. In New York, the toothless old Tammany tiger still lies dazed and listless, and Democrats are wondering where their next candidates for governor and U.S. Senator are coming from. In Illinois, National Committeeman Jack Arvey has virtually retired from the day-to-day problems of party management, and the once-great Cook County organization is dozing under the hand of an apathetic municipal court clerk named Joe Gill. In California, only...