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Kirkland edged Leverett in a 7 to 6 thriller yesterday to remain one game behind Dunster in the House football league. Duane Hooker wiped out a 6 to 0 Leverett lead in the third period when he intercepted a pass to make a 70-yard touchdown run, and Dick Nye converted for the winning point...
Meanwhile, in the Kirkland-Winthrop game, an early touchdown provided the spark that carried Kirkland to a 12-0 victory over the Puritans. On the first play from scrimmage, Kirkland quarterback Dick Nye faded back and fired a spectacular 65-yard touchdown pass to Duane Hooker. Later in the first half, Hooker clinched the game for Kirkland as he tallied his second touchdown of the day, this time...
...first suspicion that Nye was not going to do his usual roaring came as the delegates considered Leader Hugh Gaitskell's favorite proposal to switch from "oldfashioned nationalization" to a scheme for state buying of shares in key industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from...
...Nye slumped in red-faced solemnity on the platform as delegates hurled all his old arguments back at him. A Lanarkshire mother pleaded that Nye save her two sons from the leukemia that fallout would bring. Frank Cousins himself rose to confess unashamedly that he saw this issue in terms of his six-year-old daughter and favored abolishing the bomb. When Bevan finally took the floor to answer, the hall stirred. "I have probably made more speeches to more people condemning the bomb than anyone else at this conference," he began. "I am as strongly against it as ever...
...countries. If a Socialist Foreign Secretary is to have a chance, he must not be disarmed diplomatically and intellectually." Bevan seemed utterly frank. He said he had heard rumors that he was taking this line only because he wanted to be Foreign Secretary. "Hear, hear," a voice cried. Said Nye plaintively: "That is a pretty bitter thing to say about me. I would never do anything I did not believe...