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...coach Harry Cleverly said that the Terriers really hit their stride in the Dartmouth game, played in Hanover, whereas the Crimson looked tired and listless in defeat against the same team two days later. The Indians, bouncing back hard from the B.U. defeat, held Welland's boys scoreless until the last 30 seconds of the game...
When winner George Rhoden forced Cornell's Charley Moore to break stride on the final turn, Berman passed Moore, Hugo Malocco, and the rapidly fading Irv Howe of Boston College. Rhoden won by a comfortable four yards in 1:12.5, while Maiocco came up fast to edge out Berman...
...remote and barren plateau northwest of Las Vegas known as Frenchman Flat. It was the first atomic explosion in the U.S. since the historic test at Alamogordo in 1945. Most Nevadans, warned earlier in the week by the announcement of a non-nuclear "dry run," took the explosion in stride, though it rattled windows, startled early-rising tourists, and was heard as far as 150 miles away...
Condemnable Monopoly. Rotary could take in its stride the lampooning it got in Babbitt from the late novelist Sinclair Lewis (see p. 36), but the Vatican's blow was something else. Puzzled Rotarians in the U.S.Catholic as well as Protestantreacted with a stunned and unanimous "Why?" Some remembered a campaign against Rotary waged in 1928-29 by Rome's potent Jesuit magazine, Civiltà Cattolica. In many countries, the magazine charged, Rotary was altogether too friendly with the Masons, and was dangerously prone to the error of treating all religions as of equal value...
Then John L. Lewis appeared before the board. "Why do we need to freeze prices now, and why freeze wages now?" he demanded. The U.S., said Lewis, could devote 25% of its capacity to rearmament and "do that job in its stride. Our capacity is 50% greater than in 1939 and we haven't used it at all, even now . . . Why can't our country go forward and produce this 25% without the necessity of putting our economy in irons? What do we want? More steel? We're getting it. More coal? We can have it . . . hundreds...