Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonus choice, given to one team a year in an order determined by lot, came to the Cardinals by fortunate coincidence at a time when their quarterbacks were in desperately short supply. So they picked Hill for their bonus, knowing that they could also draft Crow, an asset for any team, however rich in halfbacks...
...Crow was too modest. At week's end he was on every All-America team worthy of the name (see box), and in an overwhelming vote by sportswriters, he won the Heisman Trophy as outstanding college football player of 1957. Chicago's professional Cardinals, entitled to first-draft choice because they have the worst record in the league, brightened their 1958 prospects by choosing Crow to team up with Rice's Quarterback King Hill* in the rejuvenation of the Cardinals' backfield...
...Chairman Robert Matthews said the Senator was "just tired of carrying on the fight for conservatism by himself." But some observers of Indiana politics ventured that Jenner's announcement was a ploy designed t01) jolt the state Republican organization out of its lassitude, and 2) set up a draft-Jenner movement. Old Guardsman Jenner, the cynics argued, was worried about the Democratic trend, feared that he might lose his seat unless he stirred up some enthusiasm among Indiana Republicans...
...Paris Gaillard drove through the long-delayed loi-cadre (framework law) to give Algeria limited home rule. Only two months ago the Assembly had cut a more liberal draft to shreds and so brought down Gaillard's predecessor. Partly because Deputies were unwilling to overturn a brand-new government, partly because the new Premier had prudently pruned away the clauses most objectionable to right-wing nationalists, the bill was approved by a 269-to-200 vote...
Died. Sir Alfred Zimmern, 78, egg-bald British political scientist, historian, longtime (1930-44) Oxford professor of international relations, who helped draft the League of Nations Covenant and shape the framework of UNESCO; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Avon, Conn...