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...field running ability: Texas' crazy-legged Jimmy Saxton, 21 (5 ft. 11 in., 164 Ibs.) and Arkansas' fleet-footed Lance Alworth, 21 (6 ft., 178 Ibs.). Says one scout: "Alworth didn't catch many at Arkansas. But he has tremendous speed-he runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.6 seconds-and his performance as a breakaway running back shows that once he gets the ball, he can go the distance...
Hottest rumor of the week followed the arrival one sultry forenoon of two planeloads of U.N. Italian crewmen who had ferried in a shipment of U.N. scout cars for Kindu's Malayan garrison. "Belgian paratroops!" cried Gizenga's men as they hopped into trucks for the dash to the airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried...
...coincidence only 13 elected governments have finished their terms in 131 years of independence. Last week President José María Velasco Ibarra, 68, earned the dubious distinction of becoming No. 35 to leave in midterm. Beset by strikes, riots and military revolts, he made a dash for asylum in the Mexican embassy in Quito, thus paving the way for a leftist takeover and plunging his country into a crisis similar to Jãnio Quadros' abrupt flight from Brazil...
...read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve of a score...
Whatever he did, Augustus John did with dash, and that often made it hard to see the man and his work in perspective. "I'm just a legend," he once said. "I'm not a real person at all." His life on the surface seemed a series of poses, and his work at times seemed too facile to be true. Actually, few men lived with greater gusto or, in portraits at least, were so penetrating on canvas. When John died quietly last week at the age of 83, it was as if another door had closed on that...