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...game was hardly super, but neither was the action as one-sided as the score seemed to show. "That Oakland is a good, well-coached team," said Green Bay Coach Vince Lombardi, after his N.F.L.-champion Packers drubbed the A.F.L.-champion Raiders 33-14 in last week's Super Bowl. Lombardi had no such kind words last year for the Kansas City team that the Packers defeated (35-10) in the first Super Bowl. Oakland was clearly a classier club. The Raiders tallied 16 first downs to Green Bay's 19 (one of which came on a penalty...
Schoonover, Harvard's defending Indoor Hep champ, will face the likes of Bob Seagren. USC's world champion vaulter and Villanova's Vince Bizzaro, who beat Ceagren and Schoonover in the Knights of Columbus meet two weeks...
McKelvey will race a field including John Carlos, Pan Am Games winner in the 100 and 200 meter runs. Either Baker or Shaw will be up against Kent State's Sam Bair, the National AAU mile champion...
They have found a champion in James Biddle, 38, new president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, whose office receives up to 15 "major" requests for help each week. They come from adversaries of imminent threats, such as a freeway that would desecrate the waterfront of New Orleans' Vieux Carré, and advocates of quixotic quests, such as preserving the Warrensburg, Mo., courthouse, where in 1870 George Graham Vest voiced his Eulogy...
Japan's new generation of tankers is getting too big for its berths. The world's latest heavyweight champion of the seas, a 276,000-ton ship built by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), last week had to be eased prematurely down the ways in Yokohama with upper portions of her towering hull unfinished. When completed, the new tanker, made in Japan for the U.S.'s National Bulk Carriers, Inc., will pack an incredible 2.2 million barrels of crude oil on her route from the Persian Gulf to Ireland, via the Cape of Good Hope...