Word: shapes
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...stumbling block is the general disrepair of many state and local governments. Unless they shape up-and soon-warned John Gardner, they will turn into "mere branch offices of one all-dominating national government." Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, has probed deeply into the problem, agrees. "We want to save local autonomy from what could be its own destruction," he told Indiana's legislature last week. "If state and local governments do not take effective steps to meet the urban crisis, for example, someone will have...
...tonight in Brunswick, Maine. Last year the Polar Bears were victimized at Harvard's Watson Rink in the most lopsided of the Crimson's ten wins, 9-2. So far this year, Bowdoin has been massacred by a similar margin in a scrimmage with Boston College, and the Maineman shape up as Harvard's only sure victory of the next month...
Outlines of the figure are buried in a subdued brownish-black background, yet gilt buttons streak like dim lights to shape his presence. An elbow clad in rich brocade is flattened almost like a chivalric emblem of elegance, while the face gazes out with insolent indifference...
...commitment in Viet Nam. Not surprisingly, on his vacation Lippmann found his judgment confirmed. In the first columns he has written since his return, Lippmann portrayed today's Europeans as a grey, inhibited lot. "They do not have the ambition to participate in history and to shape the future. Their state of mind is marked by a vast indifference to big issues, and there is a feeling that they are incompetent to do much about the big issues." Modern men, Lippmann was led to conclude, "are predominantly isolationist...
There has been no unanimous rhapsodizing, either, over / Do! and Holly, which last week were trying to get in shape for Broadway. The drawing power of / Do!'s two-man cast was sufficient to sell out in Boston and Washington, but Director Gower Champion was still dissatisfied with the show and detoured his company to Cincinnati for repairs. Variety's reviewer found the musical "transparent" and "flimsy," decided that it was more a concert performance than a show. So far, 30 pages of script have been doctored, four songs have been added and two dumped, but listeners have...