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Coach McCurdy afterwards pointed to the performance of the Big Red's Cravener as the crucial one; but he also pointed out that even if the varsity had placed its trio of Norris, Benjamin, and Schlaeppi ahead of the Cornellian, it would still have come off second-best--by a single point...
Finally, of course, from Beverly Hills to Skidrow they don't want second-best...
...been sufficient to meet Soviet tactics of "leapfrogging and infiltration." In the Middle East, he asserted, the Russians were taking advantage of a "new critical restlesness" which led people "to make comparisons with other ways of life and standards of justice." The United States, he warned, was coming off second-best in these comparisons...
Detroit's automakers totted up their production for the first half of 1957 last week, and got a pleasant surprise. With output of 3,370,100 units in the opening six months, the industry was a full 5.6% ahead of 1956 and enjoying its second-best year in history, behind only record 1955. Yet few huzzas were heard. With dealer stocks of unsold cars approaching the 800,000 mark, every automan knows that he will have to really hustle to sell Detroit's goal of 6,000,000 cars in 1957, and work even harder...
...there is, beyond dispute, a military threat from Red China," Menzies put his finger on the basic reason for better Aussie-Japanese relations. When asked why Australia did not buy more Japanese manufactured goods to balance Japan's purchases of Australian wool (Japan is now Australia's second-best customer), he frankly pointed up the greatest difficulty in the way of making the rapprochement stick: "Our large export income cannot be neatly balanced, because we have great industries that we are encouraging." But the ice had been broken. In the Japanese Diet Menzies was given a standing ovation...