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Recalled an African student at Northwestern University: "When I first came to Chicago I was very interested in American Negroes and their difficulties. I wanted to show solidarity with oppressed brothers, that sort of thing. So I took the elevated to the South Side one night. There were many lights, which dazzled me, and many people about, which rather frightened me. I went into a bar and listened to the talk and understood little enough. When I finally tried to enter the conversation, no one understood what I was saying at first. Then they all started laughing at my accent...
Tackles: Merlin Olsen, 21, Utah State; 6 ft. 5 in., 265 Ibs. Fate Echols, 22, Northwestern; 6 ft. 1 in., 255 Ibs. The nation's No. 1 college lineman, Olsen is a home-grown giant from Logan, Utah, who boasts brains as well as brawn: his scholastic average (3.96 out of a possible 4) is the highest in Utah State's College of Business. Tough and tenacious ("He doesn't block; he explodes"), Olsen could play either offense or defense with the pros. Smaller but extremely fast, Echols probably will be shifted to guard if he accepts...
...massive-shouldered, thick-chested Negro with thighs like tree trunks, Ferguson puts such savage strength into his pile-driving charges that he has been stopped behind the line only three times in three years of bruising Big Ten ball. "He has impossible power," said Northwestern Coach Ara Parseghian after Ferguson ground out nine first downs in Ohio State's 10-0 victory over the Wildcats. "He runs over people who don't bring him down with one or two shots...
...election week was like a nation under siege-and, in a sense, it was. The air force was alerted. Naval patrol boats growled offshore, and ground troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines...
WALTRAUT STEIN Graduate Student Northwestern University Evanston...