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...Goes to Sacramento. Crisscrossing California from Roubidoux to Rialto, from Taft to Twentynine Palms, Republican Ronald Reagan, 55, has been running 18 hours a day as if the Dead End Kids were after him (they were in at least two of his movies). And to the surprise of Republican pros and the chagrin of the Democratic hierarchy, the candidate from Warner Bros, has turned out to be the most magnetic crowd puller California has seen since John F. Kennedy first stumped the state...
...Unitas throws is sure to be a perfect spiral, and everybody knows who is going to carry the ball when the Green Bay Packers need a yard or two: Jimmy Taylor, of course. Each team employs the same basic formations and the same plays. "Execution" is everything. Watching the pros play ball is like watching a diamond cutter at work...
...other words, a bore-as far as many college coaches are concerned. "The pros are more stereotyped," insists Tennessee's Doug Dickey, and Minnesota's Murray Warmath declares: "The pros have no imagination." There was certainly no shortage of imagination as the 1966 college season got under way last week. Southern California's Coach John McKay called for a fake punt on fourth down and with his team leading by only ten points. Any pro coach who made a call like that would probably spend the rest of his career selling peanuts in the stands, but McKay...
...thing those exciting college boys should keep in mind, though. With luck, they'll wind up as pros themselves one day and have to learn how to do such boring things as block and tackle and hang onto the ball...
...play my game and be left alone," he says. Littler's game is called Finish in the Money, But Don't Be Greedy. His lifetime earnings total $434,324, most of which has come from finishing second (23 times) or third (19 times) behind better-known pros. As a matter of fact, the only tour nament Littler has won in nearly four years was last year's Canadian Open -when he shot a 66 on the last round. If he had known what the result of that would be, he might have shot...