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...first season at Buffalo, Gilchrist gained 1,096 yds., was voted Most Valuable Player in the league. Crippled by injuries last year, he still put on the greatest one-man exhibition in pro history: in a final game against the Jets, he carried the ball 36 times, scored five touchdowns, and gained...
...defense, Buffalo's "front four" make most N.F.L. linemen look like underfed schoolboys: bulwarked by massive Tackle Jim Dunaway, a Mississippi All-America in 1962, they average...
...their palms," he remembers-and sometimes the take ran to $150 a week. The N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns signed him at 18, shipped him off to Canada for seasoning. Cookie liked it so well he decided to stay. By 1962, when he quit and shuffled off to Buffalo, Cookie was the No. 1 back in Canadian football and a $20,000-a-year man with the Toronto Argonauts...
What's more, unlike many top pro runners (including Cleveland's great Jimmy Brown), Gilchrist is a superb blocker. With Cookie picking off the blitzers, Buffalo's quarterbacks have had to eat the ball only six times all season...
...past it was an area for a person to get out of, if he could afford it. Now it's a place to stay in." The Beautiful Cities. The urban renewal operation, always painful and not always a success, requires a solid consensus of civic opinion and energy. In Buffalo, for instance, a $15 million renewal program has been stalled in its tracks for a year and a half while politicians bicker over which developers should get the job. But most renewal is still slum clearance, and slum clearance has critics aplenty. The far political right naturally attacks...