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...that the warmest personal experience of all had been the visit to the Libertyville, Ill., home of Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time.) The conversation wandered amiably from such subjects...
President. That doesn't mean I would support him." Indiana's lone-wolf Republican Senator Homer Capehart, a Rocky fan in a Nixon state, came by to predict big things in Hoosierland...
...other hand, Cornell's offense was centered entirely around one man--Ron Maierhoffer, the Big Red left wing and a Pan-American star. Maierhoffer ranged all over the field and managed to score the lone Cornell tally on an unstoppable crossing shot at 1:30 of the second period. But for most of the game McIntosh, halfback Charlie Steele, and fullback Tim Morgan kept the Big Red's only hope in check...
Amherst abandoned its familiar long-passing game, depending on the dribbling and shooting of speedy wings Roger Pennington and Charlie Clark for most of its offense. Pennington gave the Lord Jeffs their lone goal with 7:50 gone in the first period, tallying on a rebound...
...blown up. Along with the danger come few compensations. For the Negroes, there is an occasional cockfight and beers on a nearby island; for the commander, who is sure that his dreary assignment is punishment for once having run a destroyer aground, there is endless compulsive reading, mixed with lone drinking bouts. Commander Hake is an Annapolis man, in many ways a first-rate officer, but an enigma and a terror to his men, who call him "Admiral God." He is frightening at inspections, when he wears an ancient Navy cutlass. His sole link with the outside world...