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Chief scoring threat on the team is 170-lb. right halfback and co-captain Dave Wells, who scored 73 points last year to rank second in New England. One of the outstanding breakaway runners in Tufts history, he scored four of his twelve touchdowns on runs of more than 65 yeards and averaged 8.08 yards per carry. His main weakness is fragility, for he has been injured in every scrimmage this season...
...purely technical excellence carried an ethical value of its own, then War and Peace would rank among the finest pictures ever made, because technically it is superb. Photographed in Vista-Vision on a film that for once neither glares nor blurrs the colors together, the movie displays a seemingly endless array of attractive palaces and costumes. Furthermore, Vidor's staging of the Battle of Borodino, especially a sequence showing the French troops storming a Russian artillery position, includes perhaps the best battle scenes ever filmed...
Totalitarianism Unruffled. Against this background of unruffled totalitarianism, Premier Chou Enlai, the No. 3 Red, calmly forecast that in six years Red China would rank fifth or sixth among industrial powers. Chou based his prediction on the first five-year plan (1953-57) targets, which, he said, had already been exceeded. Despite flood and droughts, grain production for the current period would total about 1.1 billion tons. As a consequence, said Chou, a 35% increase in agricultural production will be the goal of the second five-year plan, beginning next year. This, said he, should make possible a 100% increase...
...Milan and her lands never produced a painter even approaching the first rank," wrote famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson. "She lacked genius." The failing of Milan artists, in Berenson's critical view: "Prettiness, with its overtones of gentleness and sweetness, formed, as it were, the primordial substance of Milanese painting. Like an infinite ocean of soap-bubbles, it covered even the most salient figures with a formless iridescence...
...volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even then, he would never have succeeded without the backing of his amazing wife Sarah...