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...rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...
...down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag. Pat Nixon personally okayed the table decorations, which included gold napkins and cloths, flower centerpieces and twinkling five-pronged candelabra. The state dinner for the astronauts was held the farthest ever afield from Washington; it was the costliest (about $50,000) and the biggest of all time (1,440 guests, v. the 140 normally accommodated in the White House State Dining Room...
...counter-culture is only a step-by-step pursuit of opposites, rather than a one-step approach to novelty. So, if we are basically middle-class in our concerns, I would suggest that we have to define, concretize, and mitigate those concerns before we can hope to wander further afield in any direction...
...Kennedy for the post of Democratic whip amazed and angered many of his followers. But at least that move could be explained in personal and political terms: McCarthy holds no love for the Kennedys, and he was indebted to Long for past favors. Last week McCarthy wandered even further afield, puzzling friends and foes alike...
...women were predominantly Indian-Stone Age girls with few of the hopes or hang-ups of their white Victorian Age sisters. In most tribes, premarital sex was common (and was sometimes encouraged as a practical check against the cuckolding of married warriors by unmarried braves when the husbands were afield), and the Indian girl usually displayed a hearty appetite...