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...last week's disaster, how must Alabama, Iowa and Army feel? The No. 1 -ranked team in the U.S. last year, Alabama lost to underdog Georgia 18-17. Iowa, picked by many experts to win the Big Ten championship, was upset by Washington State, 7-0. And Army, reckoned as an Eastern power, failed to reckon on Tennessee Sophomore Charles Fulton - who threw two touchdown passes and led the Volunteers to an easy 21-0 victory...
Federal experts reckon that water shortages will become acute in large areas of the U.S. West within the next 20 years. Though desalinization is only a partial answer to the problem of a nation whose water demand is expected to almost double by 1980, it is a challenge that has aroused businessmen, scientists and the Government. Many companies are working on new ideas in the field, including Westinghouse Electric, Colt Industries and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. The Interior Department's Office of Saline Water optimistically predicts that, in 35 years, between 7% and 10% of the nation's fresh...
Quite Enough. The main effect of the bill will be to enfranchise some 3,000,-000 Negroes, mostly Southern. It is impossible to reckon how many will avail themselves of the right. But almost certainly, enough of them will register and vote to change the complexion of Southern politics...
Even in Munich he has remained a power for Ludwig Erhard to reckon with because he heads the 50 delegates of the Christian Social Union, the C.D.U.'s affiliate in Bavaria. Nonetheless, as Strauss was re-elected C.S.U. leader in Munich last week amid the redolence of wurst, beer and cigar smoke, it was clear that Franz Josef was as imperial - and imperious - as ever, and a far less palatable Bavarian export than Löwenbr...
Lackey grunted distractedly. A few second later he grinned weakly and said, " reckon you got a point there...