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Into the office of the Secretary of the Senate wandered Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey. He was real casual. Why, he asked, was everybody working so hard? Well, they were preparing new legislative bills for printing in time for the opening of Congress in January. And did they, asked Humphrey, also assign legislative numbers? Yes they did. Any system for assigning numbers? Nope. How about this bill here? asked Hubert. Mightn't it just as well be Senate Bill No. 1 as any other? Yes, sighed the bill clerk, it might. And so it will. It happens to be Humphrey...
...Cross Me." Lombardi hit Green Bay so hard the grass is still quivering. He demanded absolute authority-the power to hire and fire, to set salaries, even to design Packer uniforms. Once the whip was in his hand, he set it singing. "This is a violent sport," he told the Packers. "To play in this league, you've got to be tough -physically tough and mentally tough." He chased grandstand kibitzers off the training field, declared the rowdier Green Bay taverns off-limits, slapped $25 fines on players who showed up as little as one minute late for practice...
Last week, a member of the House team journeyed to the prison to "size up" the competition. Although he came back optimistic concerning the upcoming challenge, an outgrowth of the Prisons Program, it is the consensus of the Leverett men that the prison team could probably whip most of the other Houses in competition...
...while prone to bad afternoons, is one of the best squads in the League, and probably will whip Penn even if Gary Wood doesn't show up. Look for Penn to lose by two touchdowns in what will probably be coach John Stiegman's last game at Philadelphia...
...feet again and thrown by hand. It took Altizer 21.5 sec. to do the job. Oliver spurted into a 7-sec. lead. Doggedly, Altizer cut the lead to 2.9 sec.-but now he was pressing. He missed on his first attempt to lasso his ninth calf, had to whip out a reserve lariat and chase the calf again, lost a few precious seconds. "That done it," groaned an Altizer fan. "He's lost." At the end, Oliver's winning margin was 7.5 sec. The Texans glumly paid off their bets and demanded a rematch...