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Saturday, October 21 N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4 p.m. to conclusion). The Texas Longhorns v. the Arkansas Razorbacks, from Little Rock...
...launcher and 76 air-to-ground 2.75-in. rockets. Faster and deadlier than any other helicopter in use in Viet Nam, the Cobra is also far safer for pilots. For Viet Cong gunners it is a tough target indeed; it has been slimmed down to a svelte 36 in. (v. 100 in. in the old Huey gunships) by seating the pilot and copilot one behind the other instead of side by side as in most other helicopters. The Cobras saw combat for the first time last week when two of them blasted land ing zones with machine guns and rockets...
...Tank of the 1970s), a 50-ton monster (approximate cost: $600,000) jointly designed and built by West Germany and the U.S., is touted to be the ultimate in the next generation of heavy tanks. It can dash 400 miles at a top speed of 42 m.p.h. without refueling (v. 100 miles and 18 m.p.h. by the Panzer IVs of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps). It can cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with a laser beam. Automatic devices have reduced the standard four...
...that "El Birdos," as Cepeda calls them, can't afford four wheels of their own. The victory meant a fat paycheck of $8,900 per man, v. $5,600 for the Red Sox. Something else too. Just before their homeward-bound jet took off from Boston-and as the first of 8,000 welcomers arrived at St. Louis' Lam bert Airport-a surprise message was telegraphed from the White House inviting the Cardinals to stop over in Washington for a presidential reception. Owner August A. Busch Jr., an old L.B.J. pal, regretfully declined. Wired Gussie: "Our fans...
Died. Walter Chandler, 79, Democratic Congressman from Tennessee from 1935 to 1940, and attorney for a group of Memphis plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision; of a heart attack; in Memphis. In 1962's Baker v. Carr appeal, Chandler argued that voters of Shelby County, most populous in Tennessee, were entitled to a state-legislature delegation reflecting its size; the court agreed, in a ruling that has forced reapportionment in dozens of states...