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...tall, blunt-featured man whose interests have long ranged farther than the laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...
...suggest that settling for a 21-21 tie with Michigan might have been cricket but wasn't football. "I don't know whether we can get the kids up off the floor." But this time Evy refused to quit. He posted the offending articles on the locker-room bulletin board. His kids got the message and scored the most points Iowa had ever made against Minnesota. They beat the Gophers...
...with inherited wealth did not gain from Thorneycroft's budget. Its incentives were all directed at the rising middle class, which has contributed so many valuable men to the long lines of emigrants leaving for Australia and Canada. Conservative M.P.s flocked around Thorneycroft afterward with a kind of locker-room enthusiasm unseen in House of Commons lobbies in several years. Said one, noting that Thorneycroft was hanging on to most of his surplus: "If things turn out well, he can give more next year and even more the year after that. Remember, the year after that will be election...
...President was usually ready for the practice tee with Ed Dudley, thence to the 400-yd. first hole for a tour of the front nine (he walked half the way, rode half in his golf cart). After a locker-room lunch (a medium-size steak and a glass of milk or cup of Sanka), Ike traveled Augusta's back nine, returned briefly to his office, rested and joined Mamie for dinner (a big steak) in the dining room recently added to her Augusta cottage. Some nights the President played bridge-but the lights were nearly always...
...while, the breaks came slowly. By half time the Volunteers were doing no better than a 7-7 tie. A locker-room talk from Coach Bowden Wyatt and a message from Athletic Director General Bob Neyland, scouting in the pressbox. corrected the team's mistakes. Now the Volunteers began to get the jump, and they forced Mississippi's first big mistake: an intercepted Mississippi pass led to a quick touchdown. Then, with Majors faking Ole Miss defenders off balance and hitting his receivers with passes that practically had handles, Tennessee went in front to stay, 21-7. After...