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...Halfback Jim Cain, 19, a North Carolina lad with a receding hairline. In high school, Jim Cain was state champion quarter-miler and runs almost as fast in a football suit. Says Blaik: "Yes, he's as fast as Junior Davis, but he can't shift gears as well...
...down on some miniature wooden stands and observe critically. The Varsity starts a play. "One, two, three, four, SHIFT, five, six, seven. . ." and the ball is centered. I don't see it again until everybody stops running. "How to go Hal!" mutters one of the sports writers. "Noonan missed his block," says another...
...possible solutions. Short of portly policemen behind loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size, might also make the pedestrian's lot a happier...
...show will be given under the auspices of the Secretary of the Union, and if the experiment proves to be a success, it will be made a weekly custom. A large undergraduate turnout would shift the location of the showing to New Lecture Hall...
...political campaign which had the professionals talking was the battle for control of the Senate. A shift of only four seats would hand the upper chamber back to the Democrats. And it was just possible-such was the distribution of the 32 seats at stake*-that the shift might take place...