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...ethnic background. An American Christian gentleman and noted action-intellectual, he has withdrawn to Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
Penn has played an unorthodox 3-3-4 formation in the past. Using three line-men and three halfbacks. Penn deploys 3 deep fullbacks and a "sweeper" in front of the goalie...
...meter world record holder, could only moan, "My God, how it hurts," after losing to Kipchoge Keino, who ran it in 3 min. 34.9 sec.-second fastest time ever recorded for the metric mile. The thin air may have been a boon to Oregon's Dick Fosbury, whose unorthodox, over-the-bar-backwards, high-jumping style propelled him to an Olympic record height of 7 ft. 41 in. It certainly did nothing to slow down Bill Toomey, whose speed afoot was the major factor in his decathlon victory...
...week, students at his old high school demanded that his portrait be removed from a hallway. Why had the general interrupted his California retirement? "The whole country is drifting away from the principles that made America great," he says. In the past add: LeMay "the country had to use unorthodox methods to get out of the hole, and I think we're in that situation now. His critics charge that the "unorthodox method might employ is the H-bomb, and he has often sounded as if that is what he means. Not in regard to Viet...
Against B.U., the booters weren't able to adjust to the Terriers' unorthodox 4-2-2-3 defense. B.U. gave the Crimson the middle of the field, but dropped two extra men back into the penalty area. The Crimson halfbacks generally didn't pass through to the forward line quickly enough, giving the B.U. defense time...