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...Unitases and Y.A. Tittles was not to try and outscore them, but to devise bold new means to stop them. Thus football tacticians developed the zone defense (see diagram next page), a formation of varying intricacy designed basically to provide blanket coverage deep in the defensive secondary and thus rob the offense of its most lethal weapon: the long bomb...
...aspects of Einsteinian relativity as bourgeois theories that were contrary to Communist orthodoxy. In fact, one reason for the U.S.S.R.'s continuing lag in computer technology is that party pundits once argued that computer-controlled devices and other automated machinery would interfere with the dignity of labor and rob workers of their jobs. Despite such ideological hurdles, however, Soviet scientists have in recent years made remarkable progress...
Among the sophomore dark horses are Bob Reason, Rob Alden, Jimmy Keefe, Bill Muller, and George Farrelly...
...honey, and intrepid beekeepers raise them, though the hives are moved well away from populated areas. These bees work longer and harder than native species, even in light rain and after dark. But they chase any hapless victim that has aroused their wrath for long distances, are prone to rob other hives of honey, and often migrate suddenly from their hives to establish colonies in the wild-a clear loss for the commercial beekeeper. All in all, says the study, "it is essential to minimize the likelihood of this bee moving into North America...
Many sensitive teen-agers find such "liberated" parents worse than old-fashioned ones. "In an attempt to be hip," says a recent Bard graduate, "parents and teachers can often rob an adolescent of his own private times, his first secret expressions of love. Overliberal parents can make a child self-conscious and sexually conscious before he is ready. Sex cannot be isolated from the other mysteries of adolescence, which each person must explore for himself...