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...cored snowball. Another truck driver, also under barrage, got so incensed that he grabbed a pistol from his cab and shot "I don't know where"-it was, it turned out, into the head of an 18-year-old freshman. And the third victim, a 58-year-old packer, died of a heart attack minutes after (and, maintains his widow, because of) running the snowball gauntlet on West Cumberland Avenue...
Married. Ann Packer, 22, British track star of the Tokyo Olympics, winner of a silver medal in the 400-meter dash, a gold for her world record in the 800; and Robbie Brightwell, 25, sprinter-captain of the British men's track team, himself a silver medalist in the 1,600-meter relay; in Moulsford, England...
Money flowed like ballpark beer. One promising collegian reportedly returned to his dormitory room to find $25,000 in cash laid out neatly on his bed. When the Green Bay Packers lost out to the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers in the bidding for Baylor End Larry Elkins, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi cracked: "We missed by a couple of hundred thousand." The New York Giants went all the way to $100,000 to land Auburn's rugged (6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs.) Tucker Frederickson, the "big back" that Allie Sherman wanted in order to beef up the Giants...
...buds, there are Southern hams, Texas pecans, or fruits packed by more than a dozen Florida and California growers. Santa Clara's Day & Young, Inc. offers a "Royal Feast" that costs $21.95 and includes two smoked pheasants, two cheeses and four jars of marinated artichoke hearts. Busiest fruit packer of all is 64-year-old "Harry & David" of Medford, Ore., whose business annually exceeds $10 million and whose corporate orders often total $25,000 at a clip...
...meter run for what he termed "a nice double." Australia's Betty Cuthbert, who won three events at Melbourne in 1956, cranked her 26-year-old bones around the 400-meter track in 52 seconds to win her fourth Olympic gold medal, and a tidy bundle named Ann Packer became the second British woman ever to win an Olympic track gold medal when she took the 800 meters in world record time...