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...afternoon, undefeated Oklahoma, No. 3 team in the country, put up its 23-game winning streak for sharpshooting Texas, No. 4, to aim at. The Texans drew a bead, held a 13-7 lead with less than five minutes to go. Then, as the shadows lengthened over the bowl, the Texas aim wavered. A fourth-down kick attempt was smothered, and Oklahoma took possession deep in the heart of Texas territory. In one play, an eleven-yard end-sweep, Oklahoma tied the score. Tackle Jim Weatherall won the game for Oklahoma with a point-after-touchdown placement...
...here their customary sense of order and cleanliness deserted them. Of the girls employed in the tea-sorting godowns a Yankee traveler in 1922 complained: "Some of these tea-sorters are as much addicted to maternity as the cigarette-makers of Seville, and not a few carry young bead-eyed Mongolians slung in wide black bands over one hip. These pigtailed little toddlers do not always heighten one's relish for the finished tea, as the big piles of leaves ready for sorting and perfuming are oftentimes their playgrounds, and through and over them they tumble and waddle with...
...caliber, machine gun only 45 feet away. His panic-stricken Korean interpreter jumped out and the G.I. driver threw up his hands to surrender. Both were cut down by a merciless blast from the machine gun. A Red soldier then jumped into the road and drew a bead on Little with his rifle. Luckily, the weapon jammed. Little had time to duck into the shelter of a house by the roadside. Said he, later, 'I could see every inch of rifling down his gun barrel, I was so close...
...CONGRESS The Elephant Hunt Drawing a bead on Virginia's apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, the Senate's economizer extraordinary, is almost as adventurous an undertaking as stalking a bull elephant with an arquebus. But Minnesota's bumptious Freshman Hubert Humphrey was never one to heed the admonitions of his elders. He sighted on Harry Byrd's jaw-cracking Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures. Far from serving as a useful check on government spending, blared Humphrey, the Byrd committee might better be described as "the nonessential committee on nonessential expenditures...
...Federal Trade Commission, which usually aims an antimonopoly broadside at an entire industry, last week drew a careful bead on just one man. Its target: lean, fast-talking Henry J. Taylor, 47, sometime businessman, author (Men and Power, Time Runs Out), radio commentator and onetime Scripps-Howard journalist. In a cease & desist order growing out of a three-year investigation, FTC charged that Taylor, doing business as Manhattan's Package Advertising Co., had created a monopoly in unpatented waxed-paper wrappers by licensing others, setting prices and dividing territories. Through it, said FTC, Taylor had collected...