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...sophomores, the big man in many ways is heavyweight Bob Panoff, who must fill the size 15 shoes of talented--but graduated--Tack Chace. It's Panoff's job, and he may be called upon to deliver winning points in tight meets...
Question of Conscience? Paul thus rejected, for the present at least, the recommendations submitted last June by his pontifical commission on birth control. A majority of the commission, headed by seven cardinals, proposed that the church take a new tack in its theology of marriage that would sidestep the natural-law approach of Pius XI and Pius XII. Under their norms, any means of birth control apart from the rhythm method and sexual abstinence was said to violate God's inflexible rules for human behavior by frustrating the principal purpose of the sex act, procreation...
...with the Army defense on the play that set up Notre Dame's first touchdown; Seymour simply took two defenders up in the air with him, came down with the ball all to himself for a 19-yd. gain. North Carolina's Tar Heels tried a new tack altogether: absolutely blanket Seymour and hang the cost. It got pretty expensive. With Jim keeping three North Carolina defenders busy on one side of the field, the Irish gleefully ran up and down the other side and scored two quick touchdowns. The Tar Heels gave up. They took...
Rather than staying with its competitors, the Crimson elected to tack away from the fleet. Harvard fell way back. Although they managed to pass two boats in the final legs, and finish seventh, it cost them the title...
...much on Safer-like shots, the kind of flaming action that ensures an appearance on the air at home. The military thinks that too many correspondents are out there for their "own personal aggrandizement," Huntley told a Variety reporter recently. ABC's Howard K. Smith took the same tack when he returned from a recent visit to Viet Nam. During the Buddhist demonstrations, he said, "television gave the impression that the whole country was rioting, instead of 2,000 out of 17 million." Television, he complained, "still gives the impression that it is an American war out there...