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...notable victory for Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. As leader of the anti-Fortas fight, Griffin had taken to wearing on his lapel a golden miniature of the mythological beast that is his family's namesake. In the legends of ancient Greece, a griffin had the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, and served to guard the gold of the realm. Griffin's wife recently told him: "You are opposing the President, the Supreme Court, the minority leader of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate and the American Bar Association...
...Howard Sackler, is a sprawling, episodic semi-documentary that traces the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world. In the play he is called Jack Jefferson, and James Earl Jones roars through the role with the jungle magnetism and pride of a lion. In a concentrated off-Broadway apprenticeship, Jones often played a kind of jolly brown giant; here he plays an avenging black one. Jones is not the kind of actor who buries himself in a part. Instead, he devours the part and then radiates its presence...
...Princeton 44-Columbia 16. Marty Domes looked good again, but Columbia looked dismal again. The Lion's quarterback passed on almost every play, completing 28 of 53 passes for 373 yards and breaking five Ivy records. Other than that the game belonged to Princeton and a fullback named Ellis Moore. Moore carried 13 times for 238 yards, breaking the old Ivy record for a single game by 13 yards...
West Germans can take scant com fort from the state of their own defenses. The Bundeswehr, which is 52,000 men short of its planned 508,000 force level, showed only two weeks ago, in the Black Lion maneuvers, that it was far too inadequately trained and equipped. Wrote Der Spiegel, the big West German newsmagazine: "The Federal Republic's military situation has never appeared so hopeless as today...
Columbia will be very bad this season, but Lafayette will be worse. A good sendoff for new Lion coach Frank Navarro and his passing combination of Marty Domres and Bill Wazevich...