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These odds are not altogether a cause for lamentation, since on previous occasions the Crimson has shown itself best prepared, psychologically, for games in which it was rated the underdog. Conversely, the team has been singularly unable to handle the favorite's role--witness its listless performance against Penn last week...
After the early excitement, the campaign rapidly settled down into a dull, listless affair, and it has remained so ever since. The candidates rarely seem to speak the same language. Hogan discusses crime and maintains his "liberalism;" Keating defends Eisenhower's Formosa policy and makes a pointless offer to investigate the Atlanta temple bombing (before a Jewish audience, of course). Harriman attacks the Eisenhower administration and accuses Rockefeller of "posing as a liberal;" Rockefeller says Harriman is "boss dominated" and claims he will "anticipate problems instead of waiting for them to occur...
During his eleven years in the prize ring, Virgil ("Honeybear") Akins, 30, never earned much more than a reputation as a listless, slow-starting pug. Last week the St. Louis Honeybear suddenly turned into a tiger. To the delight of a home-town audience, he took just 20 seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally...
...major lives by his creed. When a synchronous detonation of the Liuchow runway is foiled, Major Baldwin goads his bone-weary men through an unending night as they blow each bomb separately. When the men stand about in listless show-me skepticism, it is the major who mans the heavy air hammer to prepare a roadbed rock slide...
...listless U.S. economy the Federal Reserve slipped another pep pill. For the second time in a month FRB last week announced a ½% reduction in the required reserves of member banks (down to 19% for central city banks, 17% for reserve city banks, 11% for country banks), thus freeing a potential $3 billion in bank credit for additional loans. Said a top FRBman: "Our purpose is simple: to create conditions still more favorable to recovery...