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...Duffy Daugherty know differently. On autumn Saturdays, when the chips are down, the Spartans play a game as intricate and demanding as any yet devised. Where other teams are satisfied to practice and perfect a single style of attack-the single wing, which piles blockers into a bludgeoning phalanx ahead of the ball carrier; the T formation, with its quick-opening plays and tricky hand-off s; the split-T, which spreads the defense for exasperating option plays-Michigan State uses all three and adds even more. At any moment Duffy's quarterbacks may disconcert the defense with...
...plans were upset almost from the start. French Driver Louis Hery piled up his little (750 cc.) Panhard first time around the course. A few hours later he was dead of head injuries. As rain slicked the course, at least a dozen cars skidded, collided or overturned. But a phalanx of 1,000 gendarmes surrounded the track, and spectators at least were kept from harm...
...bill. "The White House," said Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, "is marshaling all the pressure it can" against the bill on the theory that "if the Hell's Canyon bill can be defeated, Wayne Morse can also be defeated." In the end, an almost solid phalanx of Republicans (exceptions: Wisconsin's Alex Wiley and North Dakota's Bill Langer), joined by eight conservative Southern Democrats, struck a blow for President Eisenhower's partnership policy of power development. They defeated the Democratic bill, 51 to 41. Mourned Oregon's Morse: "A tragic blow...
...Appointee Seaton announced: "I certainly expect to carry out the Eisenhower-McKay power policy." He asked Davis, a fellow Nebraskan of somewhat more conservative leanings, to stay on as Under Secretary. Although Davis had been a leading candidate for the secretaryship (with 14 Western G.O.P. Senators and a solid phalanx of top Nebraska Republicans behind him), he agreed to stay on and his supporters accepted the situation without public protest...
...continued to wear liberation uniforms, and many women cautiously covered their new dresses with old clothes. The timid scanned the May Day reviewing stand for signs that would give them courage, but Chairman Mao and his gang appeared in their old dark suits, more like a phalanx of rigid revolutionaries than flowers in bloom...