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Although both teams have demonstrated the ability to roll up a big score, today's game should be a hard-nosed defensive battle. Princeton has an experienced line with eleven returning lettermen. Cornell's interior defensive line averages a hefty 236, anchored by 300-pound tackle Craig Cannon. Princeton's Cornell's Marty Sponaugle and Princeton's Ron Landeck can both run and pass well, neither is a superstar who could turn the game into a one-sided rout...
...Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized ecumenically by team ministers of different faiths, rarely stress their denominational origin. At Columbia, the Protestant Office sponsors a student hangout called "The Post-crypt," but Acting University Chaplain John Cannon stoutly contends that it is "not a Christian coffeehouse; it has nothing to do with evangelism...
...Chan mountain range, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi. The weather was clear, visibility good, and the jets dumped three tons of bombs on the site. But the airmen had to brave a murderous curtain of ground fire from mounted .50-cal. machine guns and 37-mm. cannon. Risner's jet and that of another pilot were hit. Desperately, they headed southeast, hoping to reach the South China Sea, where Risner had bailed out last spring...
That was putting it mildly. In autocratic Otto's years as lord high executioner of foreign aid bills, the chairman of his parent committee had been Missouri's curmudgeonly Clarence Cannon, another handout hater, who gave Passman a free hand to slash as he saw fit. But when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign...
L.BJ.'s Concept. After Teddy, however, preservation went into an eclipse best expressed by the "not a cent for scenery" attitude of Uncle Joe Cannon, House Speaker from 1903 to 1911. Various nation al parks and monuments were dedicated and several Presidents took a lively interest in natural beauty, but it was not until President Kennedy took office that the Federal Government again began thinking about conservation on a scale approaching Teddy Roosevelt's. J.F.K. brought in outdoorsy Stewart Udall as Interior Secretary, in 1962 called the first White House Conference on conservation since the T.R. years...