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Munro acknowledged this development at this season's outset when he shifted to the three-fullback defense that has become standard in college soccer. The 2-0 loss to Amherst, however, made him immediately switch his attention to offense...
...word for it, since the frescoes seemed to have disappeared without a trace. But one who had not forgotten about them was Ugo Procacci, Florence's superintendent of galleries and formerly the Uffizi Gallery's chief restorer. While bundling off Florentine art treasures for safekeeping after the outset of World War II, he was struck by a five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There...
...same court) in which it decided, also eight to seven, that it did have jurisdiction in the case. After six years, 16 volumes of testimony, 6000 pages of oral argument, and 112 sessions, the court changed its mind on an issue which should have been resolved at the outset...
George Segal as Nick seems much too wide-eyed and innocent at the outset. He provides little in the way of transition to the sharper Nick that should emerge later. Still, Segal is at least adequate. Sandy Dennis as Honey overplays shamelessly, and only the relative unimportance of her role in the movie makes it possible to ignore her most of the time...
Switch or Lose. At the convention, Rolvaag delegates wore buttons proclaiming "I'd rather fight than switch" -to which Keith partisans' buttons replied: "I'd rather switch than lose." Though Keith led from the outset, he fell short of the required two-thirds majority until the 20th ballot. Humphrey, scrupulously neutral during the convention, came out of seclusion to embrace Keith, noted: "You can't live forever on the older generation...