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...they knew in advance that they could not repeat last year's upset of the Cleveland Browns, the College All-Stars loafed through the 23rd annual preseason charity football game and took an embarrassing 26-0 pasting from the pro champions. High scorer: Cleveland's Lou ("The Toe") Groza, who booted four field goals and two points after touchdown...
...stubbed little toe-the result of indulging in the unusual pastime of trying to place-kick a hefty chunk of cinder block-caused University of Washington Sophomore Anne Quast, 18, considerable pain, but she limped through the 36-hole final of the women's Western amateur championship at the Guyan Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. to beat Defending Champion Pat Lesser...
...water. Not ten feet away was the glistening, brown back of a great fish." The shark returned. When the officer kicked and thrashed, it sometimes veered away. On other passes it took a piece of the officer's left hand, then of his left arm. Soon his big toe was dangling; a piece of his right heel was gone; his left calf was torn. At this moment, the officer sighted a passing ship. In his frantic efforts to attract attention, he did not notice that the shark was chewing on his thigh...
Poems in the Throat. Garbed from head to toe in black ("I am probably the most covered-up singer in the business"), with her straight black hair hanging to her waist, she chanted the changes on blighted love, nostalgia and despair in a husky contralto which ranged from a whisper to a raucous shout. Such personages as François Mauriac and Françoise Sagan dashed off songs for her. Sartre wrote that "in her throat she has millions of poems not yet written." When she took to the stage (in Anastasia) in a straight dramatic role, Le Monde...
...first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss Pakistan reached California, she would be in a good position to say a few words in favor of Pakistan's claim to Kashmir...