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...college football's first big weekend, the big news was that Notre Dame, after so-so seasons, was well and brutish again-outweighing, outrunning, outclassing Oklahoma 19-6. Two 1960 powerhouses continued winning ways, Syracuse dropping West Virginia 29-14, Washington outsizing Illinois 20-7. But Minnesota, No. 1 last year, lost a 6-0 thriller to Missouri. Football's oldest college rivalry saw Rutgers this time victorious over Princeton...
Bringing any sort of big airliner down to a gentle-or safe-landing is a considerable stunt. But heavy, fast, steeply sinking jet planes have made the proposition even trickier. Their pilots cannot make a so-so approach and depend on last-minute power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably...
...With no truly solid slugger, the Pirates score runs by punching singles through or over the infield, going for the extra base and pulling the hit and run, especially when Shortstop Groat (.325) is at bat. As always, the Yankees rely on the long ball. Although his average is a so-so .275, Centerfielder Mickey Mantle still has belted 40 home runs. Rightfielder Roger Maris has hit another 39. In Pittsburgh's vast Forbes Field (right-center-field wall: 425 ft.), most of the Yankees will have trouble reaching the seats. Not Mantle. Says Chicago White Sox Manager...
...Captain's Table (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) is a so-so stateroom farce in which an honest clod of a freighter captain (John Gregson) is put in command of a passenger liner, only to find that it is a vessel of iniquity, whose officers are mainly concerned with smuggling cigarettes and snuggling with lady voyagers. Before long the captain has taken a pratfall into a tray of lobster newburg, walked shudderingly across a boat deck alive with cries of water-borne passion, indulged in a spirited pie-throwing match with a roomful of children, and repulsed the sort...
...historic feature: momentum. This made the task of the indicator readers difficult and frustrating, but some put it all down to the fact that summer is typically the slack season for business expansion, and that U.S. businessmen are traditionally hesitant about making business decisions in an election year. As a so-so third quarter draws toward a close, most businessmen and economists still look for the economy to turn up in the fall...