Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great cities, perhaps one on either coast, but it does not. A half-century ago, San Francisco looked as if it might become the great city of the West. Instead, it has remained a charming, eccentric and physically beguiling minor metropolis. Los Angeles, in the unlikely event that it ever should overcome its centrifugal forces, may yet become the Western colossus. Though it has many parts of greatness, Chicago, on the other hand, has always thought of itself as the "second city"-and so it always will be, if not third or fourth. Even without the political power that resides...
...declares. "We're concerned with quality education." More frankly, Burton Gunter, a plainspoken Swansea farmer who sits on the county board of education, says that segregation academies are "going to take over everywhere," because "integration is ruining education-it's one of the worst things that ever hit this country, worse than a tornado...
...look around. Stepping in slow motion, he somehow worked his size 14 hunting boots through the tangle of twigs without a sound. Coming upon a clearing, he pointed to deep ruts in the black soil and whispered: "That's as big a buck track as I've ever seen." As he sat statue-still behind a huge uprooted maple, a woodpecker's tattoo shattered the intense quiet like small arms fire. Overhead, squadrons of Canada geese flew south like dark arrows in the sky. They were the only signs of life the entire...
...tied record of 103-28-4. They have won five Southwest Conference titles and one national championship, and have appeared in nine post-season bowl games. Royal was named Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America in 1961 and 1963; he is the only coach ever to win that honor twice. He may be on his way to a third title. Recently his boys whipped conference archrival Southern Methodist 45-14 in Dallas' Cotton Bowl to bring their 1969 record to 6-0. That victory secured their ranking as the nation...
...latest, and by no means least impersonation is by James Garner in Marlowe. Bogart is a tough act to follow, and none of the other Marlowes ever matched his blend of soluble morals and incorruptible conscience. Yet of all the Marlowes, Garner is physically closest to the invulnerable knight who could get sapped in the morning and crack a joke and a case by lunchtime...