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Coach Lloyd Jordan emphasized that it was still too early toll if the injured players would be fully recovered by Saturday. But he added, "They're coming along very nicely...
...Irresistible Challenge. Popo, as even the Indians call the tongue-twisting peak, exacts its toll nowadays from the young and the strong who, year after year, feel the irresistible challenge to climb the mountain. After eleven climbers had lost their lives in 1953, government authorities stepped in to regulate the traffic of alpinists. They prohibited ascents when the weather was threatening, and required each climber to have a safe minimum of alpine gear for the venture. The precautions seemed to work; ten months passed without a casualty on Popo...
...village of Amecameca, the Indians drew their coarse woollen ponchos tight against the night air and counted the bodies as they were brought down the mountain-four men and two girls, the highest toll for a single mountain-climbing accident in Mexican history...
...scheduling these small college games has been to provide the football team with "conditioning contests." These games supposedly enable the coaches to experiment and to build the players up physically without too much fear of a loss. In the past, however, these obscure matches have produced an ironic toll of injuries, as well as occasional losses. Even now Crimson fans can remember how Captain Dick Clasby sat out last year's Princeton game after being injured in his team's 42-6 route of tiny Davidson College...
With Billy de Wolfe as her guest, Imogene Coca (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC) did little better with song and a strained set of sketches. Only in one skit-Motorist Coca trying to get through a toll station without a dime-did she show her talent for getting laughs with the famous whimper...