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Against Princeton's probable zone defense and deliberate slow offense, Shep- and will continue to use the fast-break and switching man-to-man defense which worked so well in the Tufts and B.C. contests...
...short order, Ladd beards the bandit leader in his camp and has a man-to-man chat with him, helps a good many of the British colony fly out of Gundahar, and, with the help of the suddenly war-minded Boyer, cuts down the enemy with ma chine guns. In the process he also wins the affections of a blind British girl (Deborah Kerr). Thunder in the East is a flabby, farfetched thriller whose melodramatics come across as only a muted rumble on the screen...
According to Edward V. Hickey, a Quincy businessman who heads the Society, some 350 publications have been removed from stands in and around Boston by "purely voluntary" methods. Again, the bookseller is merely "requested", presumably in a man-to-man talk, to remove the material from sale; according to Hickey, "we made no threats of boycott or prosecution...
According to Shepard, this year's team figures to be "better balanced in set shots, speed, ball-handling, and defense" than last year's squad. The coach admits there are some defensive weaknesses, but he plans to use a man-to-man defense fairly consistently for the first time in his four-year tenure here. The man-to-man defense is much harder to operate effectively than the zone system...
...displayed neither a powerful offense nor a tight defense; the final score just proved that Rhode Island wasn't very good. The visitors, unlike the racehorse teams of the Ernie Calverly ear, had no speed and little shooting ability. Despite this, they constantly broke through the Crimson's man-to-man defense, only to miss what should have been easily...