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...produced a characteristic flock of Tiger stars this year. Of Bryant (6 ft. 3 in., 236 Ibs.), Merritt says: "He'll hit you just coming out of the huddle." Edward ("Too-Tall") Jones, a 6-ft. 9-in., 268-lb. defensive tackle, is a likely first-round draft choice for the pros. "Jones will go hard at you every play," Merritt says, "like he's killing snakes." Wide Receiver John Holland, according to the coach, is "quick as a hiccup...
...Leonid Brezhnev in six hours of talks hammered out the terms of a joint resolution aimed at stopping the war. At 10 Sunday evening, delegates and staff members of the U.N. Security Council-some still dressed in tuxedos or sports clothes-hastily assembled to hear the terms of the draft resolution and vote on it. The U.S.-Russian measure called for an immediate cease-fire in place on both the Egyptian and Syrian fronts. The broad-ranging Resolution 338 also called for implementation of U.N. Resolution 242 (see story page 53), which had been passed after...
...questioning the country's 500-year-old commitment to the African colonies. Portugal clings desperately to overseas territories whose combined area is 23 times its own size. It spends from 35% to 40% of its budget fighting insurgents in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea; through a four-year draft, it sends its most skilled young manpower to the African wars...
ROUND 2. Last February the White House named Charles DiBona, 41, to coordinate energy planning. DiBona, a former Navy officer and systems analyst, combines a staunch belief in unregulated free enterprise with a lack of experience in the energy field. Under DiBona, a final draft of the message was produced, and Nixon delivered it six weeks later. It quite properly called for scrapping antiquated oil-import quotas but otherwise was distressingly bland...
ROUND 4. As evidence mounted that voluntary allocation did not go far enough, Simon and energy experts from the Interior Department reluctantly prepared a draft of a mandatory program in June. Then word came that the White House would establish yet another new advisory body, an Energy Policy Office. Simon concluded that the decision should be left to the EPO chief...