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Block & Tackle. Around the gracious, red brick campus, the football area is known tersely as "Vaught's Valley." Into the valley each afternoon strides Coach Vaught, his square shoulders bulging a red sweatshirt out of shape, to teach a brand of football that is as tough as he looks-and as tough as he himself once played. Back at Texas Christian they still remember one tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection...
...characters in violent and generally entertaining motion. (The characters are named Bimbo and Bunny and Cuckoo and Buddha, as they always are in British light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
...houses tend to be far apart, one can travel for miles on a well passing only an occasional isolated only in the extreme eastern part of the population at all congested. There Square, live the factory workers and many of them of French-Canadian together in one level brick welling and small, two-family frame is the only section of town in which, to our correspondent, "material missing and probably never even...
Begun last month in an urban-renewal area in southwest Washington. Amidon is open to any Washington child whose parents provide transportation. Its 465 students, about half of them Negro, are housed in a two-story red brick building that looks like any other elementary school in the land. The big difference lies in the premise on which Hansen has founded Amidon: "The main purpose of organized education is to cultivate the basic subjects as the building blocks of intelligent behavior...
...very first game. With a season batting average of .273, Pirate Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski, 24, had been ignominiously relegated to the eighth spot in the batting order, the slot reserved for the pattyball hitters. So with one man on, Mazeroski pulled a ball over the ivy-covered leftfield brick wall in Forbes Field, and the Pirates were on their way to their first 6-4 victory...