Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March to make their homes in the new state. Beset by breakdowns and inept leadership ("Thirty minutes after we left Detroit we were lost," says a newsman who accompanied the expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...behind the idea was none other than President Charles de Gaulle himself. Other NATO powers-notably Norway, Denmark and Britain-are still firmly opposed to Spanish membership. Regarding Franco's forces as ill-equipped, intended primarily for internal security and not much good anyway, they think that Spain's geographical usefulness is already taken care of by U.S. bases in Spain...
...varsity's play in the last four games definitely suggests that it will be no pushover for Brown or for any other major opponent left on its schedule. The pitching has been especially good, permitting Boston College and Columbia only one earned run and none at all to Princeton and M.I.T...
This leaves fielding as the varsity's one major uncertain quantity. Third base is a particularly grave problem in this respect, and none of the other positions (with the possible exception of secondbase and catcher) are manned by notably sure-fingered players...
...piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none of the roistering profanity of Dedalus' Buck Mulligan. But after a week's timorous escape at a seaside resort, the rebel returns and surrenders to his clucking parent...