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...Champaign-Urbana (pop. 62,000) was not surprised by the activity; the University of Illinois was simply launching, for the fourth year in a row, its annual Festival of Contemporary Arts. Before the festival is over, the university expects to play host to 30,000 people-not a big crowd for a homecoming football game, but a big gathering for a culture fest on Illinois' eastern plain...
...Religion has been doing a good selling job," said E. N. Jacquin of the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette. "Religious promotion efforts, plus the perplexities of modern life" were the causes, said M. H. Williams of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram-Gazette. David Patten of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin answered: "Religious people seem to want everyone else to get religion...
...Champaign, underdog Illinois over Ohio State (the team that U.S. sportwriters had just voted best in the country), 14-7. By upsetting the Buckeyes, Coach Ray Eliot's Illini all but clinched the job of representing the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl...
...Angeles, twice-beaten U.C.L.A. over undefeated Stanford, 21-7, to cloud up a Rose Bowl picture complicated earlier in the day when Illinois toppled ranking Washington, 20-13, in Champaign...
...showmanship in the old tradition was also making headway. With the drive-in theater season about to begin, the Hilltop Drive-In near Perryville, Mo. planned to lure the customers by installing the added attraction of two monkeys in a cage. In Champaign, 111., the Twin City Drive-In prepared to put in another piece of bait: a 300-lb. bear...