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...czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...
...overcame U.S.C. 42-21-both teams played wide-open football. Even conservative coach Woody Hayes had his Ohio State team passing, and once again both quarterbacks ran brilliantly. In the Orange Bowl, an acrobatic touchdown catch helped Penn State defeat L.S.U. 16-9, and Nebraska beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl 19-3 with a breakaway running attack. The message was clear: this year's college players will offer the pros a bright chance to loosen up their game...
...businessmen continued strong. Many industries could not keep pace with demand because plants making such basic materials as steel, cement and paper were strained to capacity. Shortages developed that pushed up prices even more. The problem was compounded by scarcities of such raw materials as wheat, lumber and cotton, for which the booming economies of Europe and Japan were also competing...
...House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled off. His tummy is the creation of his daughter Debbie, who glued together several pieces of foam rubber and sewed it all up in red cotton for the benefit of the republic...
...really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open car going 50 m.p.h. or pluck the cotton wadding out of a pill bottle...