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Kydes, who was the mainstay at center half for Harvard's Ivy runners-up, also led the balloting for the All-Ivy team, which was announced over the vacation...
...coalition of ethnic minorities, Negroes and intellectuals that F.D.R. forged 34 years ago. Negro militancy has siphoned off much support from urban Italians, Irish and Slavs. The war has disenchanted many intellectuals. Of greater concern to the Democrats is their fading appeal to the blue-collar vote, once their mainstay. California's Brown, who had the support of labor leaders but lost the rank-and-file vote, noted: "Workers used to ask about workmen's compensation and disability insurance. Not this time. The workers have become aristocrats, and when they become aristocrats, they become Republicans...
Leverett pulled off a big deal before the season by snatching Ron Kram, Bill Schwalm, and Pete Zimmerman from the hands of varsity coach John Yovicsin. But yesterday it was old, reliable Jim Thompson--a mainstay of last year's championship team--who led the way with a touchdown and some nifty running...
With the Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade...
Shakespeare festivals are still a mainstay of summer theater, but more and more the Bard's works are blended with a touch of contemporary...