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...Krebs is the chief reason S.M.U. is the hottest basketball team the region has had in years, and S.M.U.'s hot record is the chief reason that the football-happy Southwest is taking a new look at the upstart sport of basketball. All around the conference, new field houses are bulging with fans of what many football coaches airily dismiss as "that round-ball game." Tangible proof of the new tradition at S.M.U. is the $2,250,000 field house off Mockingbird Lane completed this season. "We're not going to convert any dyed-in-the-wool football...
...week long, Moore had talked like a goateed tiger. He was fighting for pay, he reminded everyone in earshot, when this untutored upstart Patterson was still in short pants. Moore was "not without pity" for the kid, but they had sent a boy on a man's errand...
...favorite to win the 1955 Kentucky Derby. But from the first there were horseplayers who refused to recognize the signs of greatness. He's lazy, they said. He's a clown. He'll stop to count the house in the stretch. And when a California upstart named Swaps ran off with the Derby, Nashua's detractors nodded wisely...
...Illusions. Despite such unkind cuts, upstart State now has $65 million worth of new buildings, including such symbols of affluence as a new library, an 18-hole golf course and a soccer team. In 1954, when Munn moved up to the post of athletic director, Duffy succeeded him on the football hot seat. In three seasons on the job, Duffy's curly auburn hair has picked up a heavy sprinkling of grey, but he shows no outward signs of pressure...
...representing the true reaction of the nation.* Secondly, urbane Sir Anthony has a temper grown sharper with the years, and Nasser's act touched off in him a flare of personal contempt for the Egyptian-not the contempt of a loftily bred Yorkshire gentleman for an upstart "wog," but the contempt of an order-loving, word-keeping diplomat for a disorderly, dishonorable dictator...