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...most of its history, Australia's economy has ridden on the backs of endless flocks of sheep. Today it rests more comfortably on the gigantic power shovels of the new mines. The economy boasts a steady if unspectacular annual growth rate of 3%, and the country has had virtually full employment for 25 years. "Positions Vacant" columns fill acres of newsprint every day, but Australians note that unemployment is on the rise-from .96% to 1.2% in the past year. Such a rate would go almost unnoticed in the U.S. or Western Europe...
Basically, the Colts are a plodding and unspectacular team, which reflects, in part, the unobtrusive personality of their first-year head coach Don McCafferty, 49. "Execution of plays is what wins for you," he says, "not new formations." Nonetheless, McCafferty is not above introducing a little razzle-dazzle. In the Oakland game, the Colts pulled a variation on the old Statue of Liberty play. Their "this week special" was something known as a "66 Double Bow-Out"-a flood of four crisscrossing wide receivers that so confused the Raiders' secondary that Ray Perkins of the Colts was able...
Crone-though unspectacular as a passer, completing five of 19 for 53 yards-consistently converted on key third downs, and only bad luck prevented him from putting the game away in the second half...
...unspectacular ways, however, Ted Heath had shrewdly anticipated an early election. Last January he called his Shadow Cabinet into a closed session at suburban Croydon's Selsdon Park Hotel, where he and his colleagues batted out a new party platform. At that time Heath, who is an excellent administrator, declared that the party organization should be geared up for a possible June election. It was. The Tories are nothing if not good managers and good disciplinarians. In every department of Abbey House, their central office in Westminster's Smith Square, methods and systems were tightened. Throughout the regions, new party...
Harvard coach Bill Brooks, now in his 40th year of college coaching, again used most of his men in events to which they are not accustomed in the interests of equity, and standout Steve Krause did not compete at all. As a result, the times were rather unspectacular...