Word: games
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics is a game of chance, and Lyndon Johnson, a consummate politician, knows that his chances of becoming the Democratic presidential candidate next year are all but nil. Last week, though, he was out of Texas for the first time this season on a fast, six-day political tour, looking very much like a candidate who is running hard and expects...
...full-dress speech, he was full of a fury that shocked the Stevenson-minded New York audience. He threw away a large chunk of his prepared script, sneered at "those snobs who think they have solutions to all our problems," and lit into "the hothouse liberal who talks the game but doesn't play it ... Let us choose a liberal who meets the requirements of the people who know the difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well-fed liberals who would like to have...
Four seasons ago they began quietly showing up in the wooden stands behind Natchez (Miss.) High School, and strolling with practiced nonchalance across the field after the game to introduce themselves to the kid with the whiplash passing arm. By the end of this year, there was hardly a football coach in the South who had not cast covetous eyes on Perry Lee ("The Gun") Dunn, 18-year-old son of a Natchez factory worker. For Perry Lee is a quarterback with the roughhewn build of a tackle (6 ft. 1½ in., 207 Ibs.). As a senior...
...modest Dunn home, the phone jangled steadily with long-distance calls placed by nearly every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles. From Dartmouth came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with...
...until Dec. 7 can a college sign up a boy for an athletic scholarship, euphemistically called a "grant-in-aid" (tuition, fees, board, room, books, and $15 a month for laundry). For the final week's skirmishing, Dietzel and Vaught suspended worry about their coming Sugar Bowl game and grimly set out to capture...