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...dead run. But he usually gets all the time he needs to fade leisurely back and pick apart the defense. In the huddle, Tittle solicits reports on enemy weaknesses, looking for a charging linebacker who leaves the way open for a short screen pass, a safetyman who plays too shallow and can be caught flatfooted by a suddenly sprung long pass. "There's no such thing as a 'sure thing' in football," says Tittle. "The important thing is to play percentages-to do the thing that has the best chance of success." Last week End Del Shofner...
...crumbling banks of the Arkansas, the project will spend $118.5 million alone on dikes and retaining walls. To control the silt, two large dams will be built on major tributaries to the Arkansas: the Eufaula on the Canadian River and the Oologah on the Verdigris. Finally, to make the shallow, shifting Arkansas navigable, engineers will build a series of 18 locks and dams along the 516-mile route, including the $90 million Dardanelle lock...
...small South Vietnamese observation plane circled over a marshy checkerboard of wild rice fields 60 miles southwest of Saigon. Below, two companies of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, flushed into the open after sporadic fire fights, were trying to escape across the paddies in shallow-draft sampans. Alerted by the observation plane, ten huge grey U.S.-supplied amphibious personnel carriers raced to the scene, ran head-on into the Reds. Churning through the sampan fleet, the amphibious ducks ground whole boatloads of Communist guerrillas under their steel treads. Shielded behind armor plating, army troops machine-gunned the survivors. The toll...
...upstuck'-up but stuck." But Tongue figures that "we'll muddle up a bit more gradually. Given the stimulus of a tax cut next year, we'll continue up in '63." One belief is common: whenever it comes, the next dip will be shallow and brief because production now is moderate, inventories are lean, and personal incomes and savings are higher than ever...
...Mott streets in Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...