Word: swiftness
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...title of the smash hit musical of Broadway's new season-How to Succeed m Business Without Really Trying -is actually a bit misleading. The hero is energetic, guileful, scheming, ambitious, shrewd, sly and ruthless. In short, he really tries hard, and his swift progression from window washer to chairman of the board is accomplished with such finesse that you scarcely notice the blood on the corpses. The character, in fact, is so basically repulsive that there is probably only one Broadway actor who could turn this despicable crud into the most lovable monster since Barrie's crocodile...
...must reduce the weight of nuclear warheads. Such a development of lighter weapons promises the mobility of our missiles so vital to the survival of our retaliatory power after a first strike by an aggressor. Weapons light enough to be moved about on trucks and small, swift submarines could virtually assure our decisive deterrent power...
...While mighty Michigan State rolled on to victory, elsewhere last week upsets were the order of the day. Unbeaten Iowa, its swift running attack mired in ankle-deep mud, was beaten by hard-nosed Purdue (9-0). Resurgent Notre Dame, which had lost only to Michigan State, fell to Northwestern's pinpoint passing attack (12-10). Navy, rated the East's best team with four straight victories, lost 28-14 to underdog Pitt. Army was upset by West Virginia (7-3), and Maryland was surprised by South Carolina 20-10. But other powerhouses continued to roll. Second-ranked...
Died. John Holmes, 70, longtime (1937-55) president of Swift & Co., an Irish immigrant who, on the strength of a rare combination of amiability and keen analytic intelligence, rose to become the first non-Swift to head the world's largest meat-packing firm; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...
...quarterback, James Earl Wright, 22, key man in the Tigers' wide-open attack and the most dangerous back in the South, had been given an afternoon off. A sturdy six-footer, Wright is the ideal split-T quarterback. He runs the bread-and-butter option play with swift precision, can throw a pass accurately while on the dead run to either his left or his right. Says Coach Frank Camp, whose tough University of Louisville team was whipped, 28-13, by Memphis State: "Wright killed us with those roll-out passes to his left." Fortnight ago, while the Tigers...