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...Menick's got the intangibles," Siedlecki said. "He isn't the fastest back in the league, he isn't the shiftiest back in the league, but he's the best back in the league...
Straus served as Crimson Captain last season and graduated in June. He was the mainstay of the defense at the important "crease" position, using his size and speed to excellent advantage against the shiftiest of attackmen...
Boulris is one of the shiftiest and most skilful runners in the Ivy League and Halaby has a fine fullback charge, but neither possesses the speed to make the varsity a real breakaway threat. Quite possibly this crucial commodity could be supplied by sophomore halfback Larry Repsher, who made some exciting long gains and may give Don Gerety strong competition for the starting right half-back spot...
...variations. He is very fortunate in possessing a very deceptive quarterback in Loucks and a trio of excellent backs in Dennis McGill, Al Ward, and Steve Ackerman-all seniors, and all great runners. McGill is the fastest of the three, and with Bo Roberson of Cornell, one of the shiftiest in the league. McGill is very dangerous on end sweeps, and is almost certain to cause trouble for relatively slow Harvard defenders...
Zachariades had long ago learned that in the internal struggle for party power, success means the survival of the shiftiest. His formula was impressively simple: never let anyone else get too strong; heap the blame on someone else when things go wrong. For 20 years the technique kept Zachariades all-powerful in Greek Communism. In 1950 he used it on the "old man" of Greek Communism, the late George Sianto's, who was head of the party in Greece during the years of Nazi occupation. When the tide of war started going against Greece's Communist guerrillas early...