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...colossus of the macabre, a master of delightful fantasy and outrageous homicide...
...Died. Eugene Alan ("Big Daddy") Lipscomb, 31, fearsome all-pro colossus (6 ft. 6 in., 288 Ibs., 7-ft. arm spread) for the Baltimore Colts from 1956 to 1960 and then for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the "fastest big, big man" in football; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Baltimore. Someone once asked him why he solicitously helped up the opponents he had flattened. "I don't want people or kids to think Big Daddy is a cruel man," he explained...
...More Giants. Kerr's own colossus of seven campuses and 58,600 students (soon to double) reflects the pattern. Last year the University of California had operating costs of almost $500 million, with almost another $100 million for construction. It employed more than 40,000 people, delivered 4,000 babies in its hospitals, offered 10,000 courses, taught 200,000 extension students, and ran aid and research projects in more than 50 countries. No one man can really run such an establishment, says Kerr. The day of the "giant" university president is past. Now comes the "mediator" trying...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "The Colossus" stars Leo Genn as a Nobel-prizewinning scientist charged with the murder of his wife...
...second straight week, the House Special Subcommittee on Investigations poked and prodded at the A. C. Nielsen Co., the colossus of the television rating industry...