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Columbia's 5 ft. 8 in. sophomore guard already has 69 assists after seven games, and is well on the way to eclipsing the Lion assist record of 140 set by Elliot Wolfe. In the Lions' first five games of the season he had 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, and 9 assists in that order...
...most exclusive lodge in American professional athletics is the brotherhood of championship quarterbacks. Its circle is limited, and members tend to be intolerant, even contemptuous, of nonmembers, no matter what their claims to greatness. Bobby Layne, the roistering old Lion, quarterbacked teams that won championships in the N.F.L. He belongs. So do Bart Starr, who won five, Johnny Unitas, Norm Van Brocklin and Joe Namath. Francis Asbury Tarkenton, 36, is not a member. Though he has won three conference championship games, Tarkenton...
Still, even Daley's foes figure that there are several hurrahs left for the mayor. Republican Governor-elect James Thompson, who as U.S. Attorney convicted scores of Cook County Democrats and Republicans for political corruption, likened Daley to "a wounded old lion," bloodied but still dangerous. Indeed, Thompson has promised to "work closely" with Hizzoner...
...useful introduction to this new edition provides an account of Childers' tragic later career in the Irish Rebel lion. An Anglo-Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became...
...migration of jobless families from areas with low benefits (like Mississippi) to high-paying areas (like New York City). The cities, which now carry part of the welfare burden, would no longer be required to pay anything; the bill would be divided between the Federal Government-the lion's share-and the states. Carter argues that 90% of the 12 million people now on welfare cannot provide properly for themselves and hence "should be treated with love and compassion and respect and dignity." As for the 10% able to work, he would give them special training and, provided...