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...Avery Brundage promoted a new addition to the Olympic oath: "I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur." He seemed surprised to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures and could not sign in good conscience. As complaints poured in, Brundage tried to backtrack: "There is no desire to interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage did not say. ¶ Spinning the ball with a vicious kick off the pock-marked turf of Manchester...
Expressions like "A continuing sort of oneupmanship" LJan. 9] make the average TIME reader backtrack, ponder, and shake or scratch his head. "Oneupmanship" is not even to be found in a golfer's vocabulary...
...that there be gradual implementation." (Prospects that Congress would agree brightened last week, then grew dimmer. Under pressure from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and New York's Representative Adam Clayton Powell, organized labor, which had apparently supported Ike's stand, began to backtrack. At week's end Walter Reuther made it clear that unless the Administration promised to withhold federal funds from segregated schools his powerful United Auto Workers would throw its influence behind a filibuster-provoking anti-segregation amendment to wreck the school bill...
...zealously fanatic, they fought for a month before they were subdued. In the meantime, MacArthur pushed on to Noem-foor and by July 31 was perched on the New Guinea bird's head at Sansapor about 600 miles from Mindanao. There Author Morison leaves him to backtrack to Admiral Spruance, "Operation Forager," and the Marianas...
...allowed to earn a bachelor's degree as quickly as he is able, the University of Chicago announced that it was setting up some pretty old-fashioned requirements for its new B.S.: four whole years, "as in other colleges.'' Did this mean that Chicago would backtrack on Hutchins completely? Hinted Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton: "We've tried our innovation for eleven years, hoping that many other colleges and universities would join us. They haven't. There comes a point when you decide that perhaps everybody else isn't out of step...