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With Connecticut only three days away by station wagon, Dick Harlow put his boys through their paces against U-Conn plays yesterday afternoon in a tough day of dummy scrimmage. Big Vince Moravec was back on the field for the first time since he bumped his leg Monday, looking strong and leaving observers not too much in doubt about his readiness for some action Saturday...
...fool or a knave at the driving wheel of a motor vehicle is far more dangerous both to the public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...
...Killers (Mark Hellinger-Universal), as Ernest Hemingway wrote it, was a short story and a simple one. It told how a pair of professional assassins talked tough to some people in a lunch wagon. Horrified young Nick Adams (Hemingway as a boy) managed to warn their quarry, the Swede, but the Swede just stayed on his bed, knowing he could not escape. Within a few crisp pages of dialogue, Hemingway created a masterpiece in terror-by-suggestion...
...turn their country "into one of the blooming corners of the Great Soviet Union." They added that since Russia "provided us with the opportunity to bypass the capitalistic path," Tannu Tuva has revised its alphabet (now modeled on the Russian), has organized state and collective farms, tractor stations, wagon works, shoe factories, and developed gold, coal and salt mines...
...Charlie Thomas is the busiest Republican in heavily Democratic Los Angeles County. Yeasty young party members are flocking to his campaign-although he is not running for any office. GOPoliticians are cagily watching its progress and wondering if he will let them climb aboard his band wagon. The state's Republican brass is beginning to shine up to him. Bald Mr. Thomas is boldly wooing and winning Republicans to his side with such unprofessional talk...