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Weakling Oregon had outgained Ohio State (351 yds. to 304 yds.), and rung up more first downs (21 to 19), but Buckeye Coach Woody Hayes was satisfied. Said he: "The better team wins, always. And we won." Oregon Coach Len "Cazz" Casanova, who was carried off the field by his players, had a simple explanation for their great game: "We've been derided by everyone. I just told the boys I wanted to be proud of them after it was all over...
...letters I get from home," wrote People's New York Correspondent Len Coulter, "reveal that thousands of people in Britain have swallowed the old bunk about the American Way of Life-swish homes, big cars, gleaming refrigerators, 21-inch TV sets and plenty of money in the bank. Phooey...
Older professions also thrive, Len Coulter warned would-be immigrants. Most New York girls who have left home, he said, "though highly paid by British standards," manage to get by only if they "have made themselves 'interesting' to the boss, or have found sugar-daddies to support them." Money-mad males survive by corruption. "Most of America's metropolitan areas are controlled by grafters and gangster elements," added Coulter, who in his seven years in the U.S. has done most of his traveling as a New Jersey-Manhattan commuter. Before taking a driver's test...
After Vasa left, other fugitives arrived with word of Christian's massacre. Aroused at last, the peasants sent their fastest skiers to catch Vasa. These couriers stopped him only 20 miles from the border, the present site of Sälen. Now the Vasa Run commemorates his return, the start of the revolution that freed Sweden...
...last week Gunnar Larsson started from Sälen just as Vasa did, with hope. He pushed steadily across the wooded hills and frozen streams of the irregular land. Before the race was over, more than 100 exhausted skiers of the 583-man field had quit, but Larsson, as usual, stuck it out. On his ninth try, he swept first across the finish line near a statue of King Gustav Vasa that marks the spot where the young revolutionary harangued the Dalecarlian peasants four centuries ago. For one year, until time for the next Vasaloppet, Gunnar Larsson will be Sweden...