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...deceptive T-formation such as the Lions use requires a smooth ball handler who can pass accurately. Price--holder of the highest passing percentage (.538) in Columbia history--fills the bill nicely...
Died. Maurice Petsche, 55, able career man in French governments since 1920, Finance Minister in four of France's revolving-door cabinets between 1949 and 1951; of uremia; in Paris. A wealthy conservative, whose long cigarette holder became a trademark, Petsche was an active anti-Nazi during the German occupation of France in World War II. In postwar years, he fought vigorously for economy, successfully used Marshall Plan aid to strengthen France's sickly economy...
...Empire Holder: As Chief of Staff after France's liberation, directed the slow rebuilding of his country's army. In 1947 appointed Resident-General in Morocco, where a nationalist movement threatened French rule. "Morocco," he said, "has a right to be independent. But independence must wait until Morocco is ready." Applied a policy of military firmness to assure French control. He stuck with the Moroccan job after Eisenhower picked him for NATO, explaining, "I'd like to have things in order before I leave." Now he feels ready for the new post...
...clear that his side still insisted on a more defensible line, approximating present battle positions, but that he was willing to discuss some compromise. One day, after Joy had stated his position, Nam II sat silent for two hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch. Joy bore the "Big Silence" (as U.N. reporters dubbed it) with fortitude. Finally, he suggested that, since the buffer zone question was at an impasse, the negotiators take up some other agenda item. Nam II refused. He would not even show...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...