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Griff McClellan, 6-8 rebound artist, looks very good both of the boards and in the pivot. Alex Christ and George Harrington, starting guards, provide the necessary speed for the Crimson fast break. The pair followed McClellan closely in last night's scoring totals. "Our schedule is a little tougher this year," Munro concluded, "but things look pretty good right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/7/1955 | See Source »

...villain, as Herber Luethy pointed out trenchantly in France Against Herself (TIME, July 4), is centralization, which in France makes the smallest village council unable to pave a road or fix a school-house roof without the approval of a ministry in Paris, which makes all French roads pivot on Paris like spokes of a wheel, which has discouraged provincial markets and forces produce into Paris to find a buyer. Nearly a third of all France's food funnels into Les Halles. Thus, peaches grown in Southern France are shipped 500 miles to Paris, loaded onto trucks, brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Market, To Market | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...Luxembourg, where Napoleon came to ask fresh levies to send against the Austrians and the Prussians, where Clemenceau, vengeful "Tiger" of the Versailles Treaty, once brooded in the red velvet chairs, the French Senate this week declared an end to the French-German hostility that has been the central pivot of European history for 150 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Yes to Ourselves | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...first of the featured works, a small string orchestra under Norman Shapiro's direction performed Purcell's Fantasia on One Note. The novelty of this work lies in the "one note"-C-sustained throughout. All the harmony and counterpoint revolve about this tonal pivot, and it is a tribute to Purcell's genius that the technical tour-de-force never overshadows melodic beauty and expressiveness. Mr. Shapiro's treatment, however, seemed a bit heavy-handed and the players assigned the persistent C could not quite agree on its pitch...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Adams House Music Society | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

With Brown using a man-to-man defense, the game may develop into a battle of pivot men, or more likely of who sinks more fouls, Sacks or Tooley. Last year Sacks led the league in foul shots made with 127, and Tooley was second with...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Crimson Quintet Meets Brown Tonight; Ed Tooley Leads Visitors in Ivy Opener | 12/8/1954 | See Source »

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