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...fans need not apply here. The college football title, like Miss America or the Oscars, is chosen by "experts." The 60 A.P. voters represent such influential journals as Pennsylvania's Tarentum Valley News Dispatch, Oklahoma's Enid News & Eagle and the Moscow Idahonian-Daily News, but no papers based in New York City or Los Angeles. The U.P.I. board comprises 50 college coaches, but its membership also borders on the capricious. Tim Rose of minor Miami (Ohio) is a voter; Dennis Erickson of major Miami...
...first automata in actual history were more modest in concept. Archytas of Tarentum (400-350 B.C.) built a wooden dove that was reputed to have flown. In the 2nd century B.C., Hero of Alexandria wrote a book, De Automatis, that described a mechanical theater with robot figures that marched and danced in various temple ceremonies. But the king of all robotmakers was Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-1838), creator of the metronome, who also constructed an automatic orchestra called the Panharmonicon, which could simulate violins, cellos, clarinets, flutes, trumpets, drums, cymbals and triangle. For this contraption, the inventor commissioned Beethoven...
...most reliable lineman that Kelley has is a solid 200-pound center from Yonkers, N.Y., Mike Reilly. Next to Reilly, Kelley has a pair of senior guards, Bill Harris from Tarentum, Pa., and reconverted tackle Bill Klaess from Rockville Center, N.Y. Both boys weigh 195 pounds...
...majority of citizens, however, came to the polls with the air of people who needed no urging or reminding. The weather was fine almost everywhere, but most of the electorate acted as though it would have braved the rain, snow or a plague of grasshoppers. Mrs. Virginia Borrison of Tarentum, Pa. went to the polls six hours after giving birth to a baby; an unidentified woman in Miami was informed that her "I Like Ike" skirt constituted electioneering, took it off, stood calmly by in her slip until it was her turn to vote...
Steelmaster Sheldon then sat down to watch a drill by the Pioneer Firemen Drum & Bugle Corps. Also taking part was the Tarentum Legion Drum & Bugle Corps, newly equipped this year with epaulets and fittings of Allegheny stainless steel...