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...Congressman, hard-fighting Republican Clifton Young, 33, has been pitched into the Senate battle against the winner of next week's four-way Democratic primary, probably the incumbent Senator, Alan Bible. Young's bright prospects have been dimmed because Nevada's multitude of miners, ranchers and sportsmen have been reminded that Young favored a U.S. Navy project to close off 2,245,000 acres of good hunting and fishing land for gunnery ranges...
...After roughing up a Pakistani umpire and bringing down the wrath of gentlemen sportsmen from London to Karachi, traveling cricketers from the Marylebone Cricket Club came home to England for an unprecedented scolding. For the first time in the history of the game a Marylebone captain drew a public reprimand for the conduct of his team...
...Sportsmen will find New England ski slopes in exceptional condition this weekend. Most resort areas will be in good-to-excellent shape with North Conway, Franconia, and Peterborough reporting optimum conditions on all slopes...
...formal apology by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner J.M.G. James to Governor General (now President) Iskander Mirza, who is also the Pakistani cricket board president. "English players' defeats have upset their mental balance," said Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation for sportsmanship...
...last September Deepdale organized a "Calcutta"* competition. Amateur sportsmen not averse to gambling $1,000 or so on a friendly game of golf scrabbled for invitations. Among them was Richard L. Armstrong, a Manhasset (N.Y.) investor and member of the nearby Sands Point Club. At a tournament dinner before the teams teed off, Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there...