Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field goal. U.C.L.A.'s Heisman Trophy winner, Gary Beban, was something of a passing disappointment (three for six, two interceptions), but Massachusetts' Greg Landry hit seven out of 14 and scrambled 29 yds. on a bootleg when he found his receivers covered. In the offensive line, Southern Cal's huge tackle Ron Yary earned at least a draw in a head-to-head battle with Green Bay's All-Pro defensive end, Willie Davis. On defense, Oregon's cornerback Jim Smith seemed to have a hand-or an arm or a shoulder-in every other...
...bizarre amateurism, brutally inspired. Proclaiming himself their leader, Fred ("Ahmed") Evans, 37, an astrologer, calmly surrendered in the midst of the battle and just as calmly informed cops that he would have knocked off more of them if his gun had not jammed. Police found the weapon, a .30-cal. carbine, in a bush where Evans said he had dropped it. Evans, who affects the loose African dashike robe, received a $7,350 grant this summer from "Cleveland: Now!", Stokes' action group for civic betterment. He seems to have used the funds to better the community by buying weapons...
...York City, slum dwellers were sent skidding for cover when Bobby Rogers, 31, Negro superintendent of a grubby South Bronx tenement, sprayed the street with bullets from a sawed-off .30-cal. semiautomatic carbine, killing three men and wounding a fourth. Rogers surrendered next day to a deputy sheriff in Graham...
Despite such feats, the likelihood is that the Green Berets will hardly recognize themselves-or, for that matter, their surroundings or their enemy-in John Wayne's version. In the movie, the camp's single .50-cal. machine gun sits splendidly unprotected on a little hillock and the commanders direct the battle from a fragile watchtower that the Communists somehow manage to miss to the last; in reality, Green Beret camps are heavily bunkered, often reinforced with cement. In the movie, an evening's relaxation for Special Forces officers involves an outing to a Miami-style club...
...brother of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, pulled in to the Pasadena police station and said that while he was driving home on the Pasadena Freeway, someone had fired twice on his car after it was boxed in by two other cars. Police found two .38-cal. slugs embedded in Sirhan's 1955 De Soto. But some police officers were skeptical of Sirhan's tale...