Word: clara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oklahoma, after losing its opener to Santa Clara in 1948, won 31 consecutive victories before facing Kentucky in this post-season classic. The Wildcats promptly shattered the string, 13-7, and Bud Wilkinson and his Sooners had to start all over once more. Who was the famous winning coach and his equally famous quarterback who engineered the upset...
...Pastorini of Houston, 6 ft. 3 in., 216 Ibs., hurled 35 touchdown passes at Santa Clara, but was still relatively unknown outside California until the close of the 1970 season. Then he was named most valuable offensive player in the East-West Shrine game. Pastorini, who is also the Oilers' punter this season, got his chance last Sunday in the second half against the Kansas City Chiefs. Sent in to replace ineffective veteran Charley Johnson, Pastorini nearly handed the mammoth Chiefs their second upset in a row. Although he suffered two interceptions, he completed ten of 21 passes...
...begins in earnest this week in California, which, with at least 271 convention delegates, will be a crucial state for any Democratic candidate. On Labor Day, Muskie's schedule had him seeking support among Catholic labor leaders in Los Angeles. He will talk strategy with Democratic leaders in Santa Clara, San Francisco and San Diego, pause for a hospital tour in Watts, then head north to line up more party support in Oregon, another vital primary state...
...Instructions of My Government, Pierre Salinger, John Kennedy's press secretary, shows himself to be a pretty good Sunday novelist in handling predictable, Drury-style missile-crisis fiction. His troubled protagonist is Sam Hood, U.S. Ambassador to Santa Clara, an Andean republic lying in some spectral dimension between Peru and Bolivia (at the bottom of Lake Titicaca, perhaps). Hood is a seasoned though disillusioned diplomat from J.F.K.'s Alliance for Progress days who disagrees with his new President's policies but must obey orders. When Santa Claran rebels secure a mountaintop where their Chinese supporters intend...
Nuclear Egg Rolls. Yes, there is a showdown on the high seas when the U.S. Navy intercepts Chinese whaling ships in which the missiles have been concealed like nuclear egg rolls. Salinger throws in a Mafia scheme to turn Santa Clara into a tourist trap, complete with capos still in their Godfather costumes. There is an implausible love story and even a touch of self-caricature. At his worst, Salinger is merely perfunctory, as if laboring under the realization that his "topical" novel is already eight years behind before it starts. At best, he uses his own Washington experience with...