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...underdog, only one favorite survived: Missouri, which beat Florida in the Sugar Bowl, though hardly in the expected manner. Bored fans were already moving toward the exits as the fourth quarter opened with Missouri leading 20-0. Then they started right back to their seats. Led by Quarterback Steve Spurrier, who completed 27 out of 45 passes for 352 yds., the aroused Gators fought on to score three last-period touchdowns, miss victory by the margin of three bungled conversions...
Died. Sir Henry Spurrier, 66, recently retired chairman of England's vast Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd., who inherited control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's Cuba, to which Leyland is delivering 450 buses in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo; after a long illness; in Preston, England...
...from an infusion of new management and new ideas. Two years ago, faced with enormous retooling costs and an ominous sales slump, the Coventry automaker succumbed to a takeover bid by Leyland Motors Ltd., Britain's biggest truck and bus maker. Leyland's laconic Chairman Sir Henry Spurrier, 64, follows a simple creed. "We don't run risks," he snaps. "We run Leyland." Sir Henry introduced the new regime at Standard by easing out former Standard Boss Alick Dick, 46, the imaginative onetime boy wonder of the British auto industry; in as Dick's replacement went...
...Britain can lick them all if we want to," boasts Sir Henry Spurrier, 64, ebullient, white-haired chairman and managing director of England's big Leyland Motors group. Sir Henry, third-generation head of a Lancashire company that started with steam wagons and now concentrates on buses and trucks, wants to. Last year, Leyland's bought up (for $51 million) floundering Standard-Triumph International, which makes the Triumph cars. Now, bracing against Britain's possible entry into the Common Market, he has acquired Associated Commercial Vehicles, which specializes in trucks. That makes him Britain...
Templeton's disciples flocked to meet him once again. Besides McCurdy, 1937 Pacific Coast 880 champ, there was Lonnie Spurrier, first-year Business School student who set a world's record in the 880 while running for Templeton's San Francisco Athletic Club in 1955. Guinn Smith, assistant Dean of the Business School, came over to see the coach who guided him to the 1948 Olympic pole vault championship...