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...PRESIDENT signs on the Michigan State campus. "Aw shucks," said Duffy modestly. "I'm not a great coach." It was just, he explained, that "I am a good recruiter." With all those athletic scholarships at his disposal, how could he miss? "Our grants-in-aid," said Duffy solemnly, "are based on academic achievement and need. By academic achievement, we mean the boy can read and write. By need-well, we don't take a boy unless we need...
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...rural Oklahoma accent. He likes to talk to the countryfolk about "Momma" and "muh Dad," ("By gosh," said a farmer recently, "he calls his momma 'Momma.' I'd vote fer him fer no other reason than that!"), and he tosses in many an "Aw shucks" kind of reference to Oklahoma's revered Will Rogers. He claims that he is a close personal friend of Lyndon Johnson's and that therefore, if he is elected, he Can Do More for Oklahoma...
Jimmy Clark's curiosity takes an aw ful lot of satisfying. At 28, he is the youngest Grand Prix champion in history, and his income runs to $140,000 a year. Yet there he was last week, seeing how fast he could drive an untested car on a rain-drenched track outside Stuttgart, Germany-in something called the Solitude Grand Prix. The prize was far from grand-no championship points, no money to speak of (winner's purse: $1,500)-but Scotland's Clark still turned the afternoon into a breath-taking demonstration of his driving genius...
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