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...When Elvin Hayes and the Houston Cougars beat UCLA in the Astrodome, who played center for Houston this name sounds rather countryish)? Who were the Cougars' two guards? What was the hit song performed at halftime by the semi-rock group the Techniques...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: The First Annual Crimson Sports Quizzer | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Nobody Loves an Albatross fails as a moral lesson. Preston's remains a countryish buffoon from beginning to end; his plight never forces the audience to examine the necessity for honesty. The pathos raises no ethical questions; it simply dampens the already soggy humor...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Nobody Loves an Albatross | 12/5/1963 | See Source »

World War I was raging in Europe, the Panama Canal had been open only a few months, and John F. Kennedy was not yet born, when a countryish, 30-year-old Georgia lawyer named Carl Vinson was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The date was Nov. 3, 1914. All of the other men who were members that day have since departed from the House, but Vinson remains. On his pinnacle of seniority, he is, at 79, a wielder of vast power and influence, one of the most formidable old lions in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Swamp Fox | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

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