Word: swiftness
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...swift swings between lull and violence, hope and despair, the Viet Nam War has often had a manic character to it. Never more so than in the latest extraordinary episode in which, within the space of 40 days, the world moved from a sense of peace at last at hand, to the most brutal U.S. bombing of the war, to Washington's declaration late last week that the secret Paris peace talks would begin again on Jan. 8. Through Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, President Nixon announced that he was halting the massive aerial punishment of North Viet...
Center Kevin Carr slipped the puck out of a face-off-to wingman Phelps Swift who shot, hit the post and fired in his own rebound for the second Crimson goal of the period at 16:26. Peter Owen, brother of former Harvard star "Coach" Owen '71, accounted for the third score on a breakaway less than thirty seconds later to make...
...almost ready to be reactivated after having missed seven games because of injuries. At 38, crew-cut Veteran Earl Morrall, Griese's mid-season replacement, has demonstrated that he may be the best old quarterback in the game by keeping intact the Dolphins' winning streak. Sleek, swift Paul Warfield is a nonpareil pass catcher who runs square-out patterns of almost geometrical perfection. The other starting wide receiver, Howard Twilley, is small and slow, but he has an uncanny knack for getting open and holding on to passes in a crowd...
...second period, the Crimson broke the game open, as left wing Phelps Swift scored two consecutive goals. He tallied first after receiving a pass from defenseman podd Nieland. Swift racked up his second goal moments later slamming the rebound of a Kevin Burke shot into the UMass nets. Center Burke scored at the end of the second period on a breakaway, to make the score...
LaVelle is something of an oddity even in Chicago's hardboiled, cigar-chomping newspaper tradition. He quotes Nietzsche and reads Walt Whitman and Jonathan Swift. He bristles with ideas but belittles intellectuals. He declines to romanticize the workingman's life, offering instead a knowing view of the restive blue-collar world-a world that he believes the typical newspaper columnist cannot understand...