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...NEWS INQUIRY: CROSSROADS IN SPACE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A detailed report on the origin, development and present status of NASA, including a sharp examination of the pros and cons of moving the manned space center from Cape Kennedy to Houston. Frank McGee interviews NASA's top administrators as well as critics of the space program...
Crazy? Maybe. Before all the prime beef was gone, the A.F.L.'s Miami Dolphins grabbed Purdue's Star Quarterback Bob Griese; the Denver Broncos took Syracuse Halfback Floyd Little; and the Detroit Lions snapped up U.C.L.A. Halfback Mel Farr. After that, the pros were mostly going through the motions and hoping for a sleeper...
...prospects of making the team are actually pretty good. He should be able to learn the pass-catching art--his natural football ability is genuinely All-American. His size and proneness to injury are against him, but there are already a number of small fragile flankers in the pros. Further, Mike Holovak is second only to B.C. hockey coach Snooks Kelley in his reliance on local products (it was the Patriots who also drafted Davis). If Leo can do anything for the team--and Boston has a notoriously weak receiving corps--the bonus of attracting Harvard followers to Patriot games...
...title represents a personal triumph for the East's best recruiter, Ned Harkness, who coached the last national champion from the East, R.P.I. in 1954. It was not a particularly proud day for the Ivy League, though, unless you consider 23-year-old Canadian semi-pros who are lured to America solely for their hockey ability as representatives of the Ivy League. Cornell's style of play, epitomized in the final by all-star defenseman Harry Orr's major penalty for spearing and all-star forward Doug Ferguson's ejection from the game for fighting, is just as alien...
Coach John Yovicsin predicted success for both of his former stars. He said that Leo is the exact type of flanker which the pros are looking for now: a converted halfback who can run well with the ball after catching it. He characterized Davis as "the fastest defensive end the Patriots could...