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...Learn." Victories, easy or hard, are not exactly traditional for the Bruins. For a decade, U.C.L.A. has operated in the shadow of its smaller (18,-600 students to 27,500) cross-town rival, Southern California. When Prothro quit a secure job (63 victories, 37 defeats in ten years) as head coach at Oregon State and moved to U.C.L.A. last year, he inherited a team that had won only ten of its last 30 games. "Tommy did not come to U.C.L.A. to lose," commented a Los Angeles sportswriter, "but he'll learn...
...Sellout!" Naturally, not everybody is overjoyed at the merger-notably David ("Sonny") Werblin, owner of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets, who is furious at having to pay the indemnity (his share: $2,000,000) to his cross-town N.F.L. rivals, the Giants. "Sellout!" screamed Werblin, who has sold 43,000 season tickets...
...hands of educated, courteous drivers on roads not cluttered with "booby traps," governed by horse-and-buggy regulations or filled with drivers in worn-out cars who consider driving a right rather than a privilege. The good Senator Ribicoff [March 25] should try a few laps in the Hartford cross-town competition some cold, rainy night-Sebring is safer...
...biggest form reversal occurred in Los Angeles, where No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt had its nine-game winning streak snapped by Southern California 74-72. U.S.C.'s opponent in the final of the Los Angeles Classic was cross-town rival U.C.L.A., which started the season No. 1 and fell all the way out of the Top Ten when Playmaker Freddie Goss was laid up with a mysterious ailment and the Bruins lost three out of four. Last week Goss was back in action, and Coach Johnny Wooden's Bruins were looking more and more like the team that...
...time is for greater human freedom," insists that a university must "maintain an open forum" and defend the academic freedom of both faculty and students. He also stresses service to nearby Negro colleges: Vanderbilt now has faculty-exchange programs with Nashville's Fisk University and the cross-town Meharry Medical School, one of the South's main sources of Negro doctors...