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PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. As a nervous newcomer to the squad, Plimpton persuaded members of the Detroit Lions football team to talk seriously and precisely about their positions, their skills and how a Sunday's campaign is plotted. The result is the best book to date on pro football...
...bargain: the average cost per defector is $125, v. an estimated $400,000 expended to kill one enemy soldier, and 70% of those coming over so far have been combat soldiers. For all the success of Chieu Hoi, though, it is still far from winning the war. To date there have been only 200 defectors from the North Vietnamese forces, and no matter how many war-weary Viet Cong come over the line, there will be yet more Northerners to replace them. Still, Saigon feels that the defection rate has reached a turning point, expects this year to more than...
...suspended pending further research. The third-headrests to reduce whiplash neck injuries-was put off mainly because the industry cannot as yet produce enough to equip all cars. One major concession, provided for foreign manufacturers who do not follow the U.S. model-changeover routine, was to delay the effective date of the standards four months...
...worth $25,800,000. Berger's idea has been widely copied. Boston's Vance, Sanders & Co. operates four funds currently worth $311.2 million. Pittsburgh Fund Manager John F. Donahue, 42, a West Point graduate and onetime SAC pilot, will, with six new funds registered before the cutoff date, soon be overseeing 13 swaps with a total of $500 million in them...
Feilding also recommends that the seminaries and churches conduct ceaseless self-studies to make sure that their procedures, and their products, are up to date. "Few businesses or industrial concerns could stay in business were they not to subject themselves to regular self-scrutiny," he points out. Yet, "taking all the churches together, there are no agreed educational standards for the practice of the ministry...