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...middle of the third quarter before the Crimson offense saw Columbia territory again, and this time a 54-yd. drive (35 of it Callinan) seemed to end with a seven-yard Cuccia-to-Killen touchdown pass. But the play was nullified by an illegal forward pass call and Harvard had to settle for Villanueva, and a 6-0 lead...
...Buckley did during his six plays was complete Iour of four passes against the first-string defense, the last a 65-yd, touchdown bomb to Carlos Pennywell. "I've never seen guys with such speed and hands," Buckley says of the Patriot receivers. "Harold Jackson, Stanley Morgan--they were great professionals to work with...
Father's Day centers on two strong Irishmen: P.B. Kinsella, a self-made Chicago construction magnate, and his son Tom, a priest who has become president of Notre Dame. Some brilliant flashbacks explore the genesis of P.B.'s touchdown philosophy, his initiation into Chicago politics, his brush with racketeering. Others chart Tom's rise to power at the university and follow him through an ardent friendship with an actress named Maria Moore...
...pilot approaches his carrier from the stern. All he sees to guide him are the ship's banks of dimmed, tiny lights. Slowing his airspeed to about 150 m.p.h., the pilot tries to ease his howling machine down onto a bobbing runway barely 600 ft. long. At touchdown, if all goes well, a hook on the underside of the jet's tail grapples one of four cables strung a few inches over the flight deck, and the aircraft is yanked to a lurching halt. At 11:51 last Tuesday night, aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz, that difficult maneuver...
...Grumman-built Prowler dropped in for touchdown, the Nimitz's landing signal officer, in charge of directing aircraft approaches, saw that it was too high and swinging dangerously leftward-and then too far right. By radio he ordered the pilot to gun his engines and fly clear of the deck, a routine procedure for aborted landings. But Marine Lieut. Steven E. White, 27, did not-perhaps could not-obey. His plane skidded at 145 m.p.h. onto the flight deck past the last of the arresting cables and caromed some 500 ft., its right wing lopping chunks off parked jets...