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...Interior lineman: Gary Farneti was, perhaps, the most valuable player on the team and certainly the top interior lineman. Capable of playing guard or linebacker, Farneti is a Chiofaro-type football player. Short, big and tough, he seems to thrive on physical contact. With the return of Emery and Marino, Farneti will probably see most of his action next year at offensive guard. Paul Masaracchio, at 6-3 250 lbs., was the outstanding tackle on the freshman team. Eric Honick and Dale Johnson are two other highly rated tackles, able to play either offense or defense. Arnie Rossi...
...coming north," he says. "The chances are that they'll reach Panama in a few years, and then come on to the U.S." McGregor believes that the long, cold winters of the U.S. snow belt would prove fatal to the Africans but that they will probably survive and thrive in California and most of the Southeast. Nonetheless, McGregor remains philosophical. The Africans are mean, and "they do sting like hornets, " he says. "But after all, we've learned to live with hornets, haven...
Lichtheim's comments on German history, then, will serve as a nice demonstration of his fundamental idealism. "The basic fact about German history since the eighteenth century," we are told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception...
...Reynolds urges that Man should provide a habitat For his poor hairy dumb relations, A sort of ape's United Nations. The state of Florida might serve As one great simian preserve, Where the whole tribe would perhaps thrive, Or just contrive to stay alive. And in this tax-free paradise Who knows, the ape might
...accounts, dope is easily available, almost any favor can be bought and only the cunning and the brutal thrive. Moreover, penologists know that the Cook County Jail is by no means the sole or worst offender. In the wake of the disclosures, similar investigations were suggested for the city jail, where a guard recently beat a prisoner to death, and the juvenile home, where homosexuality is also rampant...