Word: tougher
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Lentz picked Tuesday to put in a new defense, the "52." It's simple variant of our normal "55"--the three interior linemen in our five-man line jam more closely together. That means the middle is packed and tougher to run against. It also leaves linebackers with more outside responsibility. And it would throw Yale's blocking assignments off. It's hard to keep track of one man who's shifting from one position to another...
Aggrey Awori, who finished fourth in both the hurdles and the dash in the ago, was up against tougher fields this Knights of Columbus meet two weeks time. He was shut out of the dash final and finished fifth in the hurdles...
...Planner A. Harry Passow of Columbia's Teachers College. Instead, the average performance of junior and senior high school teen-agers on many tests has been gradually rising, reports E. F. Lindquist, president of the Measurement Research Center at the University of Iowa. Even though the exams are tougher than a decade ago, and even though seven times as many students (1,500,000 this year) are taking them, scores on the formidable College Entrance Boards have stayed up-thus revealing how quickly excellence has attained depth. James B. Conant, whose The American High School Today, published...
Michigan Republican George Romney returned to the capital in Lansing with an enviable first term record that includes turning the state's chronic deficit into a $57.1 million surplus. A second term promises tougher sledding for Romney, facing as he does the first Democratic Michigan legislature in 30 years. In his inaugural address, Romney moved to head off trouble with a bit of sermonizing on political togetherness. Michigan, said Romney, must have "a bipartisan consensus." If he really succeeds with the Democratic legislature, it would mean another spectacular feather in Romney's much-decorated political...
...North or South, Catholics are treated more harshly by the Reds than are Buddhists. There are, of course, many Buddhists staunchly fighting the Viet Cong-both Premier Tran Van Huong and Military Chief Nguyen Khanh are Buddhists-but the Catholics as a group have always seemed to be tougher antiCommunists...