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Last year Hammond started the game on the bench, despite the fact he'd shut out Princeton the week before. Nat Bow ditch, just back from a month on the injured list, was Coach Bruce Munro's choice to start, but the senior's rust came out in the mud and Hammond was sent in to try to stop the onslaught. Hammond instead stopped a Brown player's foot with his head and was unconscious for 30 minutes...
...allowed only six TD passes all season, while intercepting 15 enemy aerials. Wilson has made eight of those interceptions, including three last week against the Bears. The first set up a St. Louis touchdown; the second he ran back 29 yds. for another TD; the third stopped a last-ditch Chicago drive. Wilson also got knocked dizzy in the third quarter, wound up the game with a gashed and bruised right hand. "Mike Ditka [6 ft. 3 in., 230 Ibs.] stepped on it," shrugged Wilson, who regards injuries as badges of honor. "If a man comes out of a game...
...easy target, Candidate Carr, 48, piled up more votes (1,900,000) in 1964 than any other office seeker in the state's history. All the same, there are some 30,000 to 40,000 hard-core liberal Democratic voters. In a tight race, they could well ditch what they derisively call Connally's "used Carr...
...this ditch for Mike!" shouted Mississippi's John Bell Williams, and minutes later, a mighty chorus of "ayes" echoed through the House chamber. The "ditch" is a projected 120-mile waterway that will connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...their part, canny Congressmen make doubly sure of preserving and developing their own districts by selling tickets to Big Mike's fund-raising dinners, digging his ditch and seeing to it that they are present and accounted for each year when his appropriations bill comes to the floor...