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...held onto it. Instead of Casella on the left this year, Little has started Paul Tremblay, a 205 pound sophomore. Captain Opydyke is at right guard and Fred Bucci, a 200 pound junior, is at left guard John Nelson, who alternated at center last year, will go at the pivot position today...
...Oppenheimer's and McCarthy's assumption of their above-the-law status furnishes the pivot of rationalized excuse for vast numbers of either tempted or careless or ignorant lesser fry to flout or evade the law, including security regulations, as may seem best to their own individual judgments. This is so elemental that the almost universal failure of our scientists to sense its truths brings the scientific fraternity into question, posing one of the great paradoxes of our time...
...stronghold, isolated between the Red River delta and Laos, was even more a psychological than a military pivot of the war. The French seized the saucer last November, built it into a bastion with a tireless airlift and talked of sucking the forces of wily Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap into an attack that they felt might hurt him sorely. For Giap, on the other hand, Dienbienphu became a challenge; to reduce the fortress could well deal a deadly blow to France's resolve to fight on in Indo-China...
...Pivot Dan Mayers, Lee Hurs, and Lou Mongoli, forwards, and guards Joe Hindman and Paul Donovan played the entire game for the Bunnies...
...Bathyscaphe explorer who faces a more insidious danger. For on getting together, the Atlantic and Atlantis, can deliver a stomach torturing roll designed to reduce even the hardiest scientist to a pale, seasick green. In the cramped quarters of the best, the dining table is set on a pivot to allow for a roll that often nears fifty degrees...