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...carry so far this season. Flanker Harold Busby is a threat to go all the way any time he gets his hands on one of Beban's passes-because he runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.4 sec. Tackle John Richardson (254 Ibs.) and Guard Larry Agajanian (232 Ibs.) supply the beef for a gang-tackling defense that limited Syracuse's own All-America Halfback Floyd Little to 18 yds. in twelve carries and held Missouri to 39 yds. on the ground...
...field goal attempts. Things are no better in the American Football League. After they barely edged Houston, 20-17, missing three field goals in the process, the A.F.L. Champion San Diego Chargers started looking around for a new place kicker. And whom did they come up with? Ben Agajanian, 45, a toeless wonder (he lost four toes on his kicking foot in an elevator accident) who had bounced around 14 pro teams before retiring for the third time last year...
Only a few of the Offies were markedly faster. Fastest of all was a roadster owned by J. C. Agajanian, a California garbage man ("Call me a used-food collector"). Driven by Parnelli Jones, 29, the Agajanian Willard Battery Special screamed around the 2½-mile oval at 151.1 m.p.h.-a record, and more than enough to win him the coveted pole position at the start. Obviously, Clark and Gurney could not hope to match Jones for pure speed. But they hoped to keep within striking distance by boring through the turns at 140 m.p.h., pick up precious seconds...
...notice. The flagman did: after Eddie Sachs skidded wildly on Lap 188 and smashed into the retaining wall, he grabbed a black flag and started to wave it at Jones. Fengler rushed up and told him to put it away. That set off an arm-waving argument between Agajanian and Chapman-in full view of everyone. On Lap 195, with third place sewed up, Roger McCluskey hit an oil slick, lost control, and spun out. Once again, for the ninth time in the race, the yellow caution light flashed on-"slow down, hold position, no passing...
...here again. But it was a dirty, cheating victory. There was oil all over that goddam track." "I had to wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing off a tumbler full of booze. "They had the black flag out, but Agajanian talked them out of it." Said Eddie Sachs, who was driving in his seventh 500: "This is the rottenest victory I've ever seen. The Lotus-Fords were fantastic; they should have won easy." Sachs was still so mad next day that he picked a fight with Winner Jones...