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...SAFETYMEN: Eric Crabtree, 21, Pittsburgh, 5 ft. 11 in., 180 lbs., and Rodger Bird, 22, Kentucky, 5 ft. 11 in., 201 lbs. The safetyman is the last line of defense, and it should be more than ordinarily difficult for anybody to get past Crabtree, an "agile, shifty" runner himself. Bird played some defense in 1964 at Kentucky, but none this year; he was too busy being the Southeastern Conference's second leading ground gainer (with 646 yds.). A little still went a long way with the scouts. "A sure tackier, hard to fool on fakes," goes one report...
...closest rival, Penn's Rodger Lorberbaum, is two goals behind but has one last chance to catch Njoku today in Penn's game with Cornell, Jim Saltonstall registered Harvard's other tally, when he put in a rebound on another Njoku shot...
...tread peeled off a tire at 150 m.p.h. and the left rear wheel of his Lotus collapsed. Old Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield grass ("Of course," added Rodger Ward, "if he didn't, his tail would've been a grape"). The same evil luck dogged Clark in Europe all summer: he won three out of his first five Grand Prix, seemed well on his way to a second straight championship when all sorts of little things...
...disaster, for one thing: A. J. Foyt, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones crashed in practice, and if the three top Indy veterans couldn't control their cars, what could be expected from the eleven green rookies in the race? There was the Great Tire War between Firestone and Goodyear (TIME, May 28), and the knock-down Battle of the Enginemakers between Ford, which entered its first Memorial Day 500 just two years ago, and Offenhauser, which had ruled the Brickyard for 18 straight years...
...change, the course must be altered more than once. Visser 't Hooft is a leader who knows how to adapt to all these new situations." With the meeting hopelessly dead locked, the central committee created a nominating committee to check out new candidates - including, if they wish, Patrick Rodger. Visser 't Hooft, who wants to retire, will stay on until his successor is found...