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...TACKLES: Francis Peay, 21, Missouri, 6 ft. 4 in., 246 lbs., and Sam Ball, 21, Kentucky, 6 ft. 4 in., 241 lbs. "If I were poetic," says one scout, "I'd say that Peay was very subtle for a lineman. There is real class in the way he hits people." Ball, says another, is simply "a mean S.O.B." Both are exceptionally agile for big men: "No matter how big a man is, he's going to be caught off balance too often if he hasn't got coordination...
...African damsels wear dresses with the portrait of J.F.K. printed on the fabric, and underlined by the caption: "Africa Will Not Forget You." One of Johnson's few African solaces is the fact that a Congolese group wrote to the U.S. embassy requesting permission to name a Boy Scout troop after L.B.J...
...happy. Vermont housewives with refrigerators full of thawing food calmly transferred everything to a more capacious freezer?the backyard. In the fireplaces of $40,000 suburban homes, paunchy businessmen crouched to kindle damp charcoal and concoct Boy Scout mulligan stew...
...John Zink, the millionaire owner of a furnace company, finds adventure atop a 100,000-lb. bulldozer, clearing timber and building roads on a 12,000-acre tract near Tulsa that he is turning into a Boy Scout camp. That's not adventure? Well, it is when one considers that Zink is 72 years old, and that he has more than once had to throw himself clear when his huge dozer overturned in the rugged country. "Of course it's dangerous," snorts Zink. "But I haven't any time for country clubs or flitting off to Europe...
Tilt. Devaney's recruiting coups have done little to endear him to rival coach es, who grumble that Nebraska is "long on finances and short on academics.' That kind of criticism doesn't bother the pro scouts. Devaney already has furnished the pros with twelve players, and this year's crop of Cornhuskers is the most attractive yet. Murmured one awestruck scout, watching Nebraska take the field: "When they run out there, you can see the field tilt...