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Cornell's halfback needs only eight yards rushing against Columbia this Saturday before the home crowd in Ithaca, N.Y.. to break the NCAA career rushing record of 3.867 yds., currently held by Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens of Oklahoma. Marinaro has four more games to easily surpass the 4,000 yd. barrier...
...left to the imagination of the late Walt Disney and to the ingenuity of his staff, however, to surpass Disneyland-and last week they did. In the swamps and scrublands of Central Florida 20 miles southwest of Orlando, a $400 million. 27,500-acre enclave called Walt Disney World was opened to the public. "World" is right. The latest Disney enterprise, four years in the building, includes a spotlessly clean amusement area, two enormous and elaborate hotels with marinas and beaches, two championship-caliber golf courses, lavishly landscaped lakes and a futuristic transportation network linking everything...
When all the pieces are in place, the vision of the future promises to be a refined and mechanized version of the past. The improved model will undoubtedly surpass its predecessor in efficiency and popularity. It may also be far more long-lasting...
...Herman Kahn predict that before long Japan, whose gross national product now exceeds $200 billion, will overtake the Soviet Union, with its $600 billion G.N.P., for second place. Kahn envisions the 21st century as "the Japanese century," the time when the hardworking, disciplined people of Japan will even surpass the prolific but bedeviled U.S. Richard Nixon stated the challenge last week as he sent to the Senate the treaty draft that restores Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa. Said the President: "The potential for cooperation between our two economies, the world's most productive and the world's most dynamic, is clearly...
...center field. Dead center field, that is. No power hitter, he makes up in accuracy what he lacks in distance. "The only time Lee's off the fairway," says Archer, "is when he's answering the phone." As for his short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says, "but it's good for a short fat man." Then, smiling slyly, he adds, "Say, it's worked for a while...