Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Darrell Royal, head coach at the University of Texas, wears tailored three-button suits and adopts a low-keyed, tutorial tone with his players. "When he explains something," says Quarterback James Street, "it's like getting a lecture from a professor." Royal also likes to bring his charges down to earth with such occasional homespun homilies as: "There ain't a hoss alive that can't be rode, and there ain't a man alive who can't be throw...
...combination of cattle-country philosopher and football slicker has helped make Royal one of the most successful college football coaches in history. During his 13-year tenure at Texas, the Longhorns have compiled a won-lost-tied record of 103-28-4. They have won five Southwest Conference titles and one national championship, and have appeared in nine post-season bowl games. Royal was named Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of America in 1961 and 1963; he is the only coach ever to win that honor twice. He may be on his way to a third...
...lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced to 30 years in jail, Biggs escaped in 1965. The last thing he wanted in his Australian hideaway was the publicity of a lottery hit. Even so, the $28,000 would have been nice. Biggs...
...Winston Churchill said of the traditions of the Royal Navy just before World War I: "What are they? Rum, sodomy and the lash...
...cannot in good conscience offer its customers any products about which even the remotest doubt exists." The ad urged that "other soft-drink companies . . . follow Pepsi-Cola's lead in developing cyclamate-free beverages." Mary Wells Lawrence, the adwoman whose agency had just completed a new campaign for Royal Crown's Diet Rite when the ban was announced, claims that she had little trouble adjusting to a non-cyclamate new version being introduced this week. "Either we're terribly intuitive or somebody up there loves us," she said, "but the new campaign has nothing to do with...