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...early in the third quarter, 79,544 fans in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium saw Lou ("The Toe") Groza boot a 43-yd. field goal, and suddenly the floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball...
...misses, we'll make him stick it in a snow bank." Laces Front, Head Down. Such newfangled notions do not impress an old pro like Cleveland's Lou ("The Toe) Groza, the dean of place kickers and top point scorer (with 1,404) in football history. At 40, Groza cuts a comical figure as he waddles onto the field -belly hanging over the waist of his practically padless pants. But the players don't snicker. A proud perfectionist who boots 30 or more field goals a day in practice, Groza hit on 15 out of 23 field...
...desk-thumping ultimatum: fire the non-Communist government, install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which confirmed Rumania's paltry Communist minority in power. In December 1947 Groza bounced young King Michael off the throne and into exile...
From then on, the Reds no longer needed Groza. They fed his egomania, allowed him always to win at tennis, to keep his wealth, to indulge his tastes in wine, women and sports-"anything I can buy with money." In 1952 they kicked him upstairs to the post of chief of state...
Last week, at 73, Petru Groza died of intestinal cancer-the first and most unlikely front man the Communists used in their drive to sovietize Eastern Europe. The Reds marshalled thousands to mourn at his funeral, quickly elected another political nonentity, Foreign Minister Ion Maurer, as his successor...