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...Pep Talk. When the debate was over, each man departed with hardly a word to the other. For the two weeks remaining in the campaign, each had set a grueling windup program for himself. Both were off on their final drives in the key Midwestern states. Each had to deal in his own way with the wind-whipped campaign foliage-the religion issue, the direction of U.S. economy and foreign policy-that seemed to hover stubbornly, like leaves that are swept from draft to draft and never seem to come to rest...
...effort to put some semblance of pep into the offensive line-up, Yovicsin will start Hobie Armstrong, sophomore speedster, at left half to team with Larry Repsher. After a good day in the Holy Cross opener, Repsher has been conspicuously absent from full-time duty...
...orator. "Baby." he cries, striding into a locker room before a game, "you know what's going against us today." The players shout their enthusiastic reply. "We'll have to hit hard," yells Gaither. "We'll have to run hard . . . We must be hungry." Each Gaither pep talk ends with the team chanting an incantation whose origins are long forgotten: "We have wounded them. They have fallen at our feet. They shall not rise. Allah...
...reverse side, the Glee Club sings with more restraint and is considerably more impressive. In a particularly excellent performance of Josquin's "Gloria" from Missa Master Patris et Filia, the strained tone of the pep rally numbers is no longer evident. The Glee Club sings this type of music with especial resonance and precision. The classical repertoire is, on the whole, very well performed under the sensitive guidance of Mr. Forbes, who coaxes both elegant gentleness and sturdy vigor from his forces...
...operational Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles-and by schedule should now have 18. Later this year twelve Atlases will be operational, whereas there should be more than 30. Last week 56 top executives of companies that make the Atlas and its launching sites returned home from Washington after a rousing pep talk from Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. urging them to get the Atlas back on schedule. The chief problem, conceded Air Force Brigadier General William E. Leonhard, a deputy commander of the Ballistic Missile Division, is "the difficulties of doing a wartime task under peacetime conditions and authority...