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...style was a complex amalgam of hillbilly, blues, English ballad, and Hawaiian twang, all coupled with Rodger's own "blue yodel." A mixture of Swiss yodeling and the Negro falsetto, Rodgers took his voice past its highest note and let it break into "T for Texas, T for Tennessee," yodelling on the "T's" and then back into a normal range for the next line...
Lloyd Ruby stood there in the Indiana rain with Rodger Ward, in front of a television camera, and a million or so people in TV land watched them. Roger Ward had won the Indianapolis 500 twice, and then, with a tearful speech, retired in 1966. Now he was back as the resident racer on ABC's Wide World of Sports, interviewing Ruby following the first day of qualifications for this year's edition of the race...
...Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, twice jumped the center snap. The Packers never fumbled; the Raiders did three times. The only interception came when Green Bay's Herb Adderley picked off a sideline pass thrown by Oakland Quarterback Daryle Lamonica and scampered 60 yds. for a touchdown. Oakland Safetyman Rodger Bird was responsible for a swing of perhaps 17 points in the score: he fumbled a punt and got beaten twice on passes...
...Overpower. Andretti has his critics, who think that his schedule-and his tactics-are suicidal. "Sometimes you should wait to pass," says Parnelli Jones, "and Mario often doesn't." Two-time Indy 500 Winner Rodger Ward says that Andretti "has to learn patience; he tries to overpower the competition." But maybe Mario can. He is the early favorite to win next month's Indy 500 in his Ford-powered Dean Van Lines Special; he also will drive a Ford Mark IV sports car at Le Mans in June and, if Sebring was any test, he will probably...
...frenzy, the department's skillful crowd-control experts were quick to head off trouble before it started. Time and again the Berkeley cops have been called the most enlightened police force in the nation. Says no less a home-town citizen than California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rodger Traynor: "They know their town well; they know their townspeople well. I respect them as officers of the law in the largest sense...