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Though the college football season is barely under way, the experts are already excited about the expected climax. The date Jan. 1, 1969. The place: the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif. The teams: Purdue (probable champions of the Big Ten) and Southern California (favorites to lead the Pacific Eight conference). That game, if it does take place, will probably decide the national championship. But the real drama will lie in the competition between the two most colorful players in college football: Purdue's Leroy Keyes, 21, and Southern Cal's Orenthal James Simpson...
...pulpit," says Bishop Gerald Kennedy, 61, who presides over his church's 262,000-member Southern California-Arizona conference. Kennedy will now have his own flock to tend in addition to his administrative duties. He is taking over the 2,900-member First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, marking the first time an active bishop of the Methodist Church has also led a local congregation. "The local church is the front line, and a bishop needs to be where the action is," says he. There will be hazards, though. "I've been telling my ministers what they were...
...countdown came over an amplified telephone hookup beamed from Cleveland. "One minute before race time, gentlemen," said the starter. In Pasadena, Calif., the three-man team starting from California Institute of Technology climbed into their red-and-white Volkswagen bus, which sported a sign reading "Socket-to-me." Across the continent, in Cambridge, Mass., a two-man competing team slipped into their modified white Corvair. Said the starter: "Get ready to throw your switches." Then, with a hum rather than the usual roar, the Great Electric-Car Race...
...carried to cool the battery. Says M.I.T.'s Jim Martin: "It was like driving an iceberg." Then, at Victorville, Calif., the car's engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there a full 37 hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech team had made the trip with fewer penalties. As a result, the adjusted finishing time was 210 hours and 3 minutes for Cal tech, 210 hours and 30 minutes for M.I.T...
NICHOLAS D. BORATYNSKI Pasadena, Calif...