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After carrying the ball past two defenders, Nelson found himself in a two-on-one rush with co-captain Bullard. Cutting inside, Nelson slipped a pass to his right for Bullard, who noticed the goalie out of the goal mouth and rocketed a shot across the goal mouth into the upper left corner of the nets...
Midfielder-forward Nelson would have no part of that. With less than five minutes remaining in the lackluster half, Nelson picked up a loose ball at midfield and slipped between two Columbia midfielders. With Ford screaming "work left!" from the sidelines, Nelson pinpointed a pass down the left wing to a sprinting Lyman Bullard, who had been ineffective through the first 40 minutes. No one, including the Columbia fullbacks and goalie, seemed to see Mike Lohrer sprinting towards the goalmouth from the right wing...
...Nelson was eager to fatten up the Crimson lead. Two-thirds of the way through the period, he leapt high for a head ball and then the ensuing rebound. The second header bounded away, but Nelson charged forward as a Columbia midfielder was winding up to kick, took the sailing ball on his torso and burst upfield...
...stage. "I've never seen that before," said an usher in response to a ticket holder's question. No one had. The pit had been elevated for a rehearsal that afternoon and the hydraulic lift had stuck. While the audience-including Vice President and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller and Mrs. Giovanni Leone, the wife of Italy's President-waited, stagehands lowered the pit by hand cranks. The prelude to Verdi's Macbeth began 54 minutes late...
Still, dispirited ranchers continue bringing their cattle to auction each week. As Ron Nelson, a cattleman up from Iowa to look over the South Dakota stock, observed recently in Miller, "If this were the first year of the drought, a lot of these boys would take a loan, buy some hay and hold on. But it's been too bad, too long...