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...pros are throwing the loot around this year, Santa Claus will have to fight to keep his franchise. "There aren't 40 players in college ball worth fighting over," insisted one pro scout, but Florida State End Fred Biletnikoff pried enough ($150,000) out of the Oakland Raiders to rent his school's football stadium to get married in. Sometimes the green left grass stains. Georgia Tackle Jim Wilson signed an $8,000 contract with the A.F.L.'s Boston Patriots last August, another for $75,000 with the N.F.L.'s San Francisco 49ers last month...
With several Olympic fencers and old pros on hand to test them the Crimson swordsmen last night warmed up for tomorrow's encounter with traditionally powerful Columbia. Both sabre and foil showed increasing strength last night, but the troublesome epee floundered once again...
...that has been published about the pros and cons of LSD and other hallucinogens, there has been no impartial appraisal by a competent scientist writing in lay language. Now, in The Beyond Within: the LSD Story (Atheneum, $5), Dr. Cohen has done the job with commendable skill. Man's drive to find out what his mind is like, says Cohen, besides "including a search for release from the painful realities of' disease, disaster and death . . . also at tempts to find an answer to the question of how one human should relate to an other, and how man should...
...When the pros got around to divvying up the college catch at last week's annual draft in Manhattan, one big fish was missing: Quarterback Jerry Rhome, 22, of the University of Tulsa Missing, but not forgotten. Three teams, the New York Jets, the Dallas Cowboys, Canada's Calgary Stampeders, drafted Rhome last year, when he was a junior, and the only question now is how much he is going to cost the lucky bidder. Last week Rhome hiked the starting price another notch by flinging 29 passes and completing 18 for 234 yds. and two touchdowns, leading...
...decision: "I'd have to say that the boy is accurate in the 10-to 15-yd. range," he said. "But I can't tell you whether he can throw long." Then, too, Rhome is only 6 ft. tall: "He might be too short for the pros." Only a cynic would point out that if Jerry Rhome is too short, so are such pros as Washington's Sonny Jurgenson, St. Louis' Charley Johnson New York's Y. A. Tittle, Minnesota's' Fran Tarkenton, and San Francisco's George Mira...