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...Navy. Sighs one pro scout: "It's too bad we can't get him married off so he'd have to quit the Academy." Muses another: "Maybe he's got flat feet?" After Staubach, who? In the year of the quarterback "it's a tossup," says one scout. Nevertheless, the majority choice is Southern Cal's Pete Beathard, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.). "A winner all his life," reads a report. "Capable of throwing the bomb." Scouts fret that Miami's George Mira...
...Pollster Sam Lubell, who doesn't use figures, reported that Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Pat Brown are run ning "a fifty-fifty tossup" race for Governor of California. In the East, said Lubell, President Kennedy's support of Democratic candidates for Governor is doing them little good: New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Ohio Candidate James A. Rhodes and Pennsylvania Candidate William W. Scranton (see cover) are each getting significant support from voters who backed Kennedy...
According to Shepard, today's game is pretty much of a tossup. "All I know about Springfield is that they beat Yale," Shepard said yesterday. Although the Maroon and white is supposed to be very good this year, Harvard can probably match them man for man both at bat and in the field...
...Crimson is billed as a slight favorite by virtue of its greater depth. Yovicsin rates the game a "tossup...
...disappointment for the Crimson came in the diving. Though the event was rated as a tossup before the meet, hopes for a Harvard victory depended heavily on the ability of Jeff Lewy and Clark Peters to take first and third. But Lewy got off to a weak start, and despite a dive that won him a 7, a 71/2, and an almost unheard of 81/2 from the judges, Yale Gordon Smith edged him out by three points for a winning total of 75.82. Peters lost third place by a point, and the meet was almost over for the Crimson...