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Halfback Bobby Leo even outdid his opening performance against Holy Cross last year by picking up 132 yards in 14 attempts, for a 9.5 average per carry. Fellow halfback Vic Gatto wasn't far behind with 109 yards in 13 carries, (not counting a touchdown run called back because of a penalty), and fullback Tom Choquette gained 57 yards in 10 attempts...
...health. Neither writer has been demonstrably anti-Russian or even clearly critical of any Soviet regime since Stalin. By defining literature as propaganda and, for the first time in Soviet history, actually trying writers for "political crimes" on the basis of what they had written, the judges outdid Stalin. As Sinyavsky aptly says in his essay On Socialist Realism: "So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new prisons...
Science writers outdid themselves reporting that all physics was in a state of chaos and shock. But the real shock came almost a decade ago when Professors Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton challenged the concept of "parity" and the idea of symmetry in matter and antimatter for so-called "weak" forces in nature. What was needed was an experiment to check out possible violations of physical symmetry in stronger forces...
...little hope for the future. President Kennedy gave the first Bosch government great financial and moral support; but many Dominicans who ought to know insist that the CIA and the American military attaches were simultaneously encouraging Dominican generals to upset the Bosch government. The CIA and the attaches easily outdid the American president in this tussle, and there was indeed a coup...
...this careful and eloquent biography, the first full-length portrait of Poet Thomas ever published, Author Constantine FitzGibbon demonstrates with vivid detail that the reality sometimes outdid the legend. As a longtime friend of Dylan's, FitzGibbon is painfully aware of the flaws in his subject's character. Dylan, he says flatly, was a slob, a liar, a moocher, a thief, a two-fisted boozefighter, a puffy Priapus who regularly assaulted the wives of his best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend...