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...Hall. Boyk gave his program virtues student recitals usually lack: clarity in widely divergent styles, and assured control. He played the opening Fantasy in C minor by Bach at just the right speed. In a piece easy to muddle, Boyk avoided the temptations of slopping meat where only a staunch skeleton was appropriate...
...threatened into negotiations by Khrushchev. De Gaulle himself has long ago conceded the Oder-Neisse line, and France at best pays only lip service to German reunification. De Gaulle's emphasis is on the maintenance of present Allied rights in West Germany and Berlin. He stands staunch against any sort of disengagement in Central Europe. against German troop limitations, and recognition of East Germany...
...Pooling. Monnet's tough peasant heritage is stamped in his broad face and his short, stocky, muscular body. His paternal grandfather, a farmer-mayor of Cognac, lived to the age of 102. Jean Monnet's mother lived to be 87, his father, Jean Gabriel, to 83. A staunch conservative. Jean Gabriel used to warn young Jean that "every new idea is bound to be a bad idea." There is no evidence that Jean paid any attention...
...games last year (against Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn), the Crimson scored only one touchdown--and won. Harvard scored three touchdowns in only one game, and two in only three games. Glenn Haughie and Jim Nelson are gone at the corner linebacker positions, and big Bob Pillsbury and the other staunch linemen have graduated. Offense, not defense, will have to lead the Crimson to victory. The line will certainly be creditable, but a quarterback must move the ball with a backfield behind him. These things must be resolved in the hot first weeks when most of the players are fighting just...
...will remember that after Chambers had appeared on Meet the Press and had said that Hiss was a Communist, Hiss did not sue for a while. Editorial after editorial throughout the country commented on the fact, and when the Washington Post, one of Hiss's staunch defenders, challenged Hiss to make good on his challenge to Chambers, he felt he had no alternative but to start suit. The rest, of course, is history...