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Robert Scher '60, as the "valet," is stiff and apparently ill-at-ease. But his role of omniscient apathy makes the distinguishing line between stiffness and stoicism fairly hazy. His eyelids are ossified, as per stage instructions...
...Touring U.S. track-and-field athletes, operating under the separate scoring system for men and women denied them in Moscow, ran into unexpectedly stiff competition from Poland. The U.S. men won 115-97 but the women lost 54-52. The U.S.'s Glenn Davis scored a double victory in the 400-meter run and 400-meter hurdles, but 100,000 fans in Warsaw cheered loudest for their own Jerzy Chromik, winner of the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a world-record...
...Australia's 20-year-old Herb Elliott got spiked in the getaway rush, encountered stiff head winds in the homestretch, still managed to win the British Empire Games mile at Cardiff, Wales in 3:59-his seventh under-four-minute mile...
...population growth so steep that there can be no hope of abating the general misery for years. Though he merged Syria in his United Arab Republic with glowing promises of prosperity in Arab brotherhood, the first consequences for Syrians were a decline in the value of their money, a stiff boost in tariffs, and destruction of their remaining political freedoms...
FRANCE The Providential Man Out of the kaleidoscopic confusion of events in France emerged two arresting facts. In his first seven days in power Charles de Gaulle had managed to give his country firmer government than it had known in the preceding seven years. And in the process the stiff old soldier from Colombey-les-Deux Eglises had displayed precisely the two qualities his critics insisted that he lacked-a talent for conciliation and a mastery of political maneuver worthy of a Talleyrand or a Tammany sachem...