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...drivers tool around the back country risking their necks for the breezy hell of it, living out some shabby fantasy of success. The drivers are all portrayed by real stunt drivers, which gives the cast a unifying verisimilitude and a certain brazen clumsiness in the expository scenes. These are scant, presumably because everyone is more comfortable behind the wheel. But even the various automobile stunts begin to lose their punch the third time around. The plot, almost inevitably, concerns the one driver who wants to push the risk a little further, and how fate slaps him down. Along this weary...
Sophomore Tom Wolfe took up where he left off last year, winning the 200-yd. backstroke. His stiffest competition in the league this year should come from Crimson freshman Neil Martin, who finished a scant .6 seconds back...
Miss Woods' cruel working hours and scant personal life have gradually been rewarded with increased responsibilities, a staff of her own (three sub-secretaries work in her office) and occasionally a chance to influence the thinking of the President. Nixon is said to regard her as a shrewd judge of politics...
...flanks of units protecting the Third Army. As a result of such maneuvers, troops of the United Nations Emergency Force moving into the battlefield area to keep the peace found it hard to find the lines. In some places, the blue-helmeted U.N. troops discovered Egyptians and Israelis a scant 30 yds. away from one another. In other places, the lines were kilometers apart...
...Quakers added to their lead a scant ten seconds later when John Burke dribbled past the Harvard defense and swung a short lead pass to Partridge. Partridge placed his breakaway shot to Kidder's far side, and Penn had a 2-0 lead...