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Died. Johnny Mack Brown, 70, the University of Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl hero, who became a leading man in films with Marion Davies (The Fair Coed) and Mary Pickford (Coquette), then went on to star in Hollywood westerns of the '30s and '40s; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...offseason, owners tried to increase excitement by moving the goal posts back 10 yds. and making other revisions to rejuvenate the offense. The changes have succeeded to some extent, but what the N.F.L. really needed was some fresh heroes, new contenders and a tight race to the Super Bowl instead of Miami's usual romp. So far, it has all three...
...Simpson predicted as much last season. When Buffalo finished behind Miami with a record of 9-5, Simpson announced that the Bills would soon be Super Bowl material. If that day comes this year it will be because the Bills have rapidly developed Into a well-balanced team. Last year Simpson gained 2,003 yds., and Fullback Jim Braxton ground out 494 yds., giving Buffalo the most productive two-man running attack in the history of the game. But that was about all the attack they had. Not so this season. Though Simpson has been running at about half last...
GLENN ENGLISH. Oklahoma's congressional delegation went all-Democratic as English, former executive director of the state Democratic party, knocked off the highly conservative John N. Happy Camp in a rural Dust Bowl district. English, 33, an oil-and gas-leasing operator, drove some 40,000 miles to meet the area's voters, promising them hard work in Washington even though he frankly admitted that "there's no way I'll solve the problems of the world." The candor was appreciated, but English got a bigger and wholly coincidental lift from a surprising source: a flood...
Despite such regional woes as America's Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the world's major agricultural areas have enjoyed an unparalleled record of beneficent weather for the past half-century. It has been "the most abnormal period in at least a thousand years," says Reid A. Bryson, director of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Environmental Studies. Temperatures were surprisingly high, and the warmth fostered plant growth in normally well-watered areas, while some deserts shrank under the influence of regular rainfall...