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...sport's headlong flight toward new records, new attendance figures and brave new ideas, the businessmen who pay the salaries and provide the arenas have tailed sluggishly behind. But last week three major sports could report progress toward bigger and better things. ¶ The fledgling American Football League is now solidly stocked with college stars of the past season, expects to be in full flight by this fall in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Houston, Buffalo, Boston and Dallas. The money is pledged, and stadiums are available. Relations are raw between the American and the established National Football...
Running Bear (Johnny Preston; Mercury). There was an Indian brave named Running Bear who loved an Indian maid named Little White Dove but was separated from her by a raging river. He plunged in, and she plunged in, and "The raging river pulled them down/ Now they'll always be together/ In that happy huntin' ground." The arrangement lags and lurches, but it has carried Singer Preston into his own happy hunting ground on the pop charts...
...successfully. And though increasing numbers of junior officers outspokenly echoed the settlers' complaints, Old Gaullist Massu had long made it clear that, while he might grumble, he would never revolt against De Gaulle. In Paris late last week, reflecting on the circumstances of the Kempski interview, Massu-a brave soldier, but not a brilliant man-concluded that he had fallen into a trap somehow baited for him by ultra leaders...
...What is against the spirit of Camp David are acts which turn a brave little country into a moaning colonialist slum...
...hold-for-release, as with, for example, advance copies of speeches, more often it is a device used by pressagent types anxious for simultaneous nationwide news splashes. Government agencies are prime offenders, and the automobile industry has virtually canonized the hold-for-release. But now and again, some brave journalistic spirit dares defy the restrictions-as last week did the New York Times and its Women's Page Editor Elizabeth Penrose Howkins...