Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardy and Skip Goodman fouled out for Holworthy early in the last quarter. Corser made three points in the last minute but Ed Suss' two foul shots clinched the game...
...Halls of Montezuma concentrates on a single platoon, this time headed by an ex-schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove that Sherman was right...
Marxism for Schoolchildren. Another terrorist tactic is to enter a school, cut the telephone wires, hold up the teacher, go into the classes, make fiery Communist speeches to the children, take away their identity cards and, after 20 minutes, skip. Identity cards have been issued because of The Emergency, and they apparently bother the terrorists, who are trying to break up the card system...
...answer, which this week became published policy, was broad and sweeping. Unlike the big Rockefeller Foundation ($123 million) and Carnegie Corp. of New York ($173 million), the Fords would skip specific scientific, medical and public-health projects. Instead, they would try to find new designs for human relationships which would match the assembly-line achievements of the machine age. One suggested field of endeavor, described in a prime sample of sociological gobbledygook: "The mitigation of tensions which now threaten world peace...
...Eliot House sophomore mounted the Holyoke House stairs at 9 a.m. yesterday to have his adviser sign his study card. All went well until the adviser--a new man, who will be identified herein merely as Shultz--questioned the sophomore's desire to skip the first half of a course and start immediately with the second portion...