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...seen a flagrant boo-boo like that, any field judge would have tossed down his yellow flag and penalized Navy 15 yards for having an ineligible receiver downfield. Right now, though, Navy's 1963 All-America Quarterback Roger Staubach, 24, pretty much has to throw to his old teammate, former Navy Guard Fred Marlin, 26. There aren't too many other decent receivers at the U.S. naval base at Danang in South Viet Nam, where Ensign Staubach is stationed as a supply officer. Jolly Roger keeps his passing arm limbered up by working out with Fred...
Callaway, having opened his campaign in October with a speech blasting the Sanders administration, stated a week later that he would "continue the honest administration of Carl Sanders and Ernie Vandiver," in a flagrant move to gain moderate votes. But moderates still believe that Bo is just a Lester without a Pickrick stick...
...savagery that gripped Hough, a garbage-strewn, rat-infested Negro section of Cleveland that is known as "Rough Hough" or simply "The Jungle," was a flagrant example of irresponsibility on the part of both Negroes and white officialdom. If ever a slum was predictably ripe for riot, it was Hough. Some 60,000 Negroes are jammed into a two-square-mile warren of squat apartment houses and decaying mansions carved up into flats; the area's crime rate is the highest in the city; flocks of prostitutes hustle passers-by at every chance; and hatred for the city...
...clock raids of more than 300 houses in Negro neighborhoods. They had arrest warrants-but they never once bothered to get search warrants. They acted with such classic disregard for the dictates of the Fourth Amendment that a U.S. Appellate Court has just condemned them for "the most flagrant invasions of privacy ever to come under the scrutiny of a federal court...
...When the government has mobilized pressure to enforce the guideposts, policy is administered "without due process." There is little logic in the choice of "situations selected for confrontation" since administrative difficulties often prevent action against the most flagrant violators of guidepost standards...