Word: seventh
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Pete Dawkins (Army) is something more than a fine halfback. He is captain of the team, first captain of the cadet corps, president and seventh-ranking scholar of his class, hockey defenseman and musician (he plays four instruments). In Army's new wide-open offense, Dawkins specializes in slashing runs to the weak side, is the team's top pass receiver and the nation's leadiRg scorer (74 points...
...Service, with headquarters in Harvard Square, states that its purpose is to provide American students with "comprehensive and objective data regarding the Communist-sponsored Seventh World Youth Festival." Next summer's Festival will be the first ever held outside the Iron Curtain...
...Seventh Seal (Swedish). A beautifully photographed attempt to "express the modern dilemma" in terms of the medieval morality play-not everyone's cup of mead, but a powerful brew...
...Seventh Seal (AB Svensk Film-industri; Janus). Ingmar Bergman, the 40-year-old Swede who wrote and directed this powerful and peculiar picture, is the son of a well-known Swedish clergyman, and he says that the film was inspired by childhood memories of "the strange vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted...
...coping with this Japanese maneuver, the U.S. Third and Seventh Fleets. Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid commanding, left the five-day-old Leyte beachhead perilously unguarded. Rear Admiral Clifton "Ziggy" Sprague's light task force of baby flattops with a destroyer screen was cruelly trapped by a surprise attack from San Bernardino Strait. On the question of who was to blame hinges the Leyte Gulf controversy that has sputtered ever since. Nearly all of Historian Morison's evidence in this book supports the notion that "Bull"' Halsey was the most blameworthy; he fell for and chased the decoy...