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...nicer homes and enjoying more community facilities than they ever would have dreamed possible. Even the conflicts between new towners, Old Skelmers, and corporation executives seem small in some perspectives. One event, for example, brought the whole town resoundingly together--Skelm's climb to the amateur soccer final at Wembley...
Nobody knows for sure how many fans watch soccer each year, although estimates run to 500 million. Queen Elizabeth and 97,000 of her more delirious subjects crammed into Wembley Stadium to watch the climactic contest of a 71 -nation competition that started two years ago. England was the odds-on (at 1-2) favorite on the strength of a tenacious defense, led by Captain Bobby Moore, that had allowed just one goal (on a penalty shot) during the entire World Cup playoff - plus a swarming, aggressive offense sparked by Bobby Charlton, who scored both goals when England beat Portugal...
WORLD CUP SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP (NBC, 12 noon2 p.m.). The final game broadcast via satellite from Wembley Stadium near London...
...Matter of Style. The opening salvos were hardly inspiring-or definitive. Wilson had long ago determined to launch Labor's campaign with a U.S.-style convention demonstration in Wembley Stadium. It turned out to be a long (5½ hours), amateurish pastiche of everything from African drums and Indian dancers to slides (which repeatedly jammed) of unemployed miners in the '30s. Deputy Labor Leader George Brown got a far bigger ovation than Wilson, who is a donnishly precise but uninspired orator...
Dead Center. The opening round served to spotlight one significant difference in style between the two parties. The Wembley format was all Wilson's doing; taking his cue from Lyndon Johnson, the Labor leader has made it plain that Labor's campaign will be essentially a one-man show. The Tories in contrast intend to run as a team, giving Sir Alec's Cabinet ministers as much exposure as possible to emphasize the quality and depth of the Tory front bench against what they already are calling Labor's "one-man band...