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Charge! Under previous coaches, the Rams were noted for their wide-open offense and sievelike defense. Allen installed an uncomplicated ball-control offense, similar to Green Bay's, backed up by a brutal defense that relies heavily on the charge of the "Fearsome Four-some"-Ends "Deacon" Jones and Lamar Lundy, Tackles Merlin Olsen and Roger Brown. Between them, they weigh a total of 1,096 Ibs. Last season the Fearsome Foursome flattened opposing quarterbacks 43 times; this year they have already accomplished the feat 27 times-tops in the league...
...BRUTAL civil war in Nigeria is slowly dragging to a close. Little remains of the secessionist Eastern Region--Biafra. In just a few months, probably, all rebel territory will belong to the Federal Republic. Even then, though, some fighting will continue. Guerrilla units are operating behind federal lines, and they have been since August...
...fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations as the Rock loosed "a brutal shot to the heart, a slamming left and right to the jaw," and dropped the bloodied Manassa Mauler for the count in two minutes and 28 seconds of the 13th round...
Toomey modestly insists that "behind every good decathlon man there's a good doctor," and indeed the demands of the brutal competition are enough to strain the strongest body. Kurt Bendlin, West Germany's world record holder, arrived in Mexico City complaining of two sore knees and tendonitis in one elbow. Toomey had a pulled hip muscle for which he was being treated with cortisone. Even so, in the first test, the 100-meter dash, Toomey hit the tape in 10.4 sec., best time of the day and good enough for 959 points under the complicated decathlon scoring...
...Amante Anglaise concerns a particularly squalid and brutal murder in a small provincial town: Claire Lannes kills her middleaged, deaf-mute cousin for no apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies...