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Calvo, a junior, stopped right into the gap at the start of the season and has been fulfilling all the promise he showed as a freshman and sophomore. He threw a 35-yard scoring pass in the opener against Lafayette and exhibited the important qualities of deceptive ball-handling ability and coolness under fire...
...South Korean army had recovered from its panic and was fighting bravely and well on the U.S. right flank. But the U.S. left flank was open: there was a yawning gap between this flank and the west coast. Around it the North Koreans poured two crack divisions, the 4th and 6th (described, in Douglas MacArthur's overoptimistic communiqués of that period, as "roving bands). In a matter of days they swept through the southwestern corner of Korea and raced east for Pusan. They were in sight of Masan, 30 miles from Pusan, before they were stopped...
Last week Jane had clearly won her fight. Her strong, disciplined voice, clear diction and exact phrasing, bridging the gap between torch and classical, made most of the new ballads she sang sound better than they really were. Younger singers could take pointers from the confident way she wrapped her voice around such oldies as Get Happy, Embraceable You and I've Got You Under My Skin. Not only could she get around a nightclub floor without a trace of a limp, she was spending her spare time on the golf course, trying to regain her low-80s game...
...pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled to Atkinson. "Got you!" said Eddie, and he was right-by a nose...
Their own information about the manpower available at the Business School and its status is also inadequate, the Placement Office noted, and it is undertaking a survey of all students to repair this gap...