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...Michigan, Saimes played on both defense and offense, spent more time on the field than any other Michigan State player, and scored one touchdown on a brilliant, 17-yd. run. In the locker room just before the Notre Dame game, Saimes lost his contact lenses. But his sight was keen enough to throw six key blocks in the last half and to find holes so effectively that he scored two touchdowns in a frenzied third quarter that buried Irish hopes (17-7). Last week against Indiana, Saimes, though nursing a painfully bruised right leg, bulled his way for one touchdown...
When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. Dry and controlled tales by a Briton with a keen eye for the madness that squirms in view when the ordinary is overturned...
...competition from foreign lines grows ever more keen, some U.S. airline presidents also feel strongly that it makes little economic sense for U.S. carriers to compete on overseas service. A more sensible approach, the presidents argued in Washington, would be to grant U.S. lines exclusive routes. For service to such im portant gateways as London and Paris, which the second U.S. line might be loath to relinquish, they suggest that the flights -and revenues-should be pooled and the schedules arranged so that the two lines would complement, and not compete with, each other's services...
Often during the week. Jackie Kennedy, who has been taking golf lessons all summer and who now sports a good, athletic swing, slipped away to the Newport Country Club; the President, whose ailing back still keeps him off the course, takes keen interest in his wife's progress toward...
...Roger Maris is a cocky pro with the classic attributes of the power hitter: keen eyesight, quick wrists, magnificent coordination. His controlled, compact swing is one of baseball's prettiest sights. "There's no waste motion at all," marvels Yankee Batting Coach Wally Moses. Raised in North Dakota, the son of a mechanical supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, Maris was a phenomenal high school football player. No student ("Sports took up all my time; I couldn't keep my mind on books"), Maris turned down some half-dozen col lege scholarship offers to try out with...