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steelmen may well be looking for some wood to knock on. With only a little bit of luck, they have a chance to make 1966 their third straight year of rec ord production...
...prestige was at stake in two congressional races. Seeking a ninth term aboard Daley's delegation to Washington, Rep resentative Barratt O'Hara - who at 84 is the oldest member of the House -was challenged by Abner Mikva, 40, a liberal with a distinguished ten-year rec ord in the state legislature. Though O'Hara rarely gets home to his problem-racked South Side constituency, the smooth-purring Democratic machine came to his rescue, helping him to win, 33,789 to 31,180. Said O'Hara, a Spanish-American War veteran: "It was my toughest battle...
Hardly anyone realized that it was also the 21st time this season that Hull had scored while his opponents were short a man-another new N.H.L. rec ord. Bobby had still more in mind. In addition to that first Chicago pennant, there was the overall individual scoring record of 96, tallied by totaling both assists and goals. By week's end, after scoring his 52nd and 53rd goals and making one assist, Hull was only three points away from the overall record...
...what else is new? He has scored as many as four touchdowns in a single game (against the Minnesota Vikings two months ago), averaged 4.4 yds. every time he has carried the ball, caught 26 passes for an average gain of 15.6 yds., broken a National Football League rec ord for touchdowns by a rookie (14), and virtually sewed up the N.F.L.'s Rookie of the Year award. But he hasn't felt much excitement yet. "May be," he says hopefully,"the excitement will come later...
...seeds of the present crisis go back to the early 1900s, when a young reform-minded President named José Battle y Ordóñez started the country on a spree of welfare-statism. He and his successors set up workmen's compensation, minimum-wage and old-age-pension plans, organized a sprawl of government industries (insurance, electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic...