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...contrast, the citizens of Peking appeared uniformly healthy and well nourished, wrapped against the cold in padded blue cotton jackets, and bicycling carelessly along the vast avenues. There seemed fewer people in greater space and perhaps a greater sense of well-being expressed among them...
Although bowl assignments will be released officially tomorrow at 6 p.m., they have already leaked out. Bear Bryant's second-ranked Alabama will contest the seventh-place Longhorns of Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Oklahoma, four in the rankings, meets Joe Paterno's sixth-ranked Penn State in the Sugar Bowl...
Explosive I. At Oregon, McKay was a flashy halfback who helped lead his team into the 1949 Cotton Bowl. After graduation he decided that he would not play as a pro and took a $2,800-a-year job as assistant coach at his alma mater. In 1959 he joined the U.S.C. staff. One year later he was named head coach. After two losing seasons, he silenced the protests of U.S.C.'s rabid alumni by sweeping both the 1962 national championship and Coach-of-the-Year honors. The first coach to popularize the explosive I formation, McKay...
...traditional Japanese culture. It has to do with spareness, poverty and austerity. A teahouse, made of bare, unlacquered wood, with its straw thatch and river stones, displays wabi. Wabi is the rough, salty irregularity of a classical tea bowl, the plain twig in a flower arrangement, the coarse black cotton of a kimono. Its meaning extends beyond the sphere of aesthetics into a more general discipline; it suggests an uncluttered and precisely lived life in which the individual is brought into a clear relationship with nature and with his society. No matter how sumptuous or even exclusive they...
...away until he got to a hem he looked up. The people seated around the now bare table were staring at him. Retaining his composure after a slight telltale blush, he sliced down the seam and severed his connection with his meal, swallowed a mouthful of 99 per cent cotton, licked his chops, smacked his lips, wiped his mouth with the remaining cloth, sat back comfortably, and let out a satisfied burp. He asked to be excused and left to go to the Health Services. He had his stomach pumped and missed the Brown game...