Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the college football season is barely under way, the experts are already excited about the expected climax. The date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...
...Russian readers this agony is redoubled. Russians have always loved innocents in literature, and the carpenter Ivan is a peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots, a spoon you made from aluminum wire, a needle and thread hidden in your...
N.F.L. FOOTBALL (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Baltimore Colts v. Dallas Cowboys in a preseason exhibition. Live from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas...
...seasons the A.F.L. has been cast in the embarrassing role of Sunday's stepchild. Truth be told, the league deserved its billing. Compared with the precision and poise of the N.F.L., A.F.L. teams have looked slipshod and sophomoric. Their subservience was under scored in the first two Super Bowl games when the Green Bay Packers handily dispatched the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 and the Oakland Raiders 33-14. Last year N.F.L. teams trounced the A.F.L. in the first round of interleague exhibition play, winning 13 of 16 games...
Even as a youngster in The Bronx, Mel Powell was a brilliantly advanced musician. At least that is the way he remembers it. Of course, his fledgling compositions did not exactly bowl over his piano teacher, who "seemed to prefer Mozart." But it was already clear that Powell was something special. He completed high school at 14, and started a precocious career playing jazz piano. "It turned out," he recalls, with barely a smile of irony, "that I became magnificent...