Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season long, scouts from the National Football League closely study college games, and run down tipsters' estimates in the search for the big boys who can play the man's game of the pros. Meeting in Philadelphia this week to draft college stars for next year's rosters, the pro teams were ruled by their own particular manpower requirements, ended up picking some players far down on everyone's lists. But, with surprising unanimity, the pro scouts this year agree on the nation's finest college players. The pros' All-America...
...Chris Burford, 21, Stanford; 6 ft. 2½ in., 199 lbs. Major: education. Burford led the nation in pass receiving (61 catches) for 756 yds., six touchdowns. "Great hands, fine speed and size. He's phenomenal, can catch anything, long or short...
...week's end Staudacher, 47, had his badly damaged, 31½-ft. boat up for repairs at his woodworking shop back in Kawkawlin. Mich., where he earns a good living by turning out church furniture, enjoys a reputation as the nation's finest builder of wooden-hulled, unlimited hydroplanes. As soon as repairs are complete and the water is right (probably next spring), Staudacher will give Tempo-Alcoa an all-out try at Campbell's record, feels sure she will break it. Says he wryly: "She runs much better on water than she does on land...
...lost the Kentucky Derby by a nose, the Preakness by four lengths, but Sword Dancer, the little chestnut three-year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...
...ticklish consequences are analyzed by the Rev. Neil G. McCluskey, education editor of America, in a quietly reasoned new book, Catholic Viewpoint on Education (Hanover House; $3.50). In the past 60 years, Catholic parochial schools have more than quintupled their enrollment, become the nation's fastest-growing educational system. Last year they enrolled 4,900,000 students, about 14% of all U.S. schoolchildren (and as many as 60% in strongly Catholic communities). The future is clear: roughly 30% of all U.S. babies are born to Roman Catholic families. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment...