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...that could be gleaned from the sportswriters who waste their time covering the Elis was that the System involved "Dynamic Football," featuring a "Wide-Open Offense...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: New 'John Pont System' Has Undergone Revisions | 11/30/1963 | See Source »

That is what U.S. fans are learning to expect from the colleges: rootin', tootin', wide-open, score-a-million, hell-for-leather football. The season is only a month old. But it might have been New Year's Day and Bowl time last weekend for all the thunderous collisions among titans, the staggering upsets, and impossible heroics. In the same Dallas Cotton Bowl where Navy's Staubach left everyone limp the night before, another 75,000 fans almost expired from excitement the next afternoon when No. 2-ranked Texas crushed No. 1-ranked Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Jolly Roger | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...critic calls "the great beasts of California's architectural jungle?those cutthroat competitors who are grinding out one flashy banality after another." But Pereira is by no means alone. Several of his contemporaries are involved in outstanding examples of regional planning ?most of it in California, with its wide-open spaces and zooming population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Man with The Plan | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...game should be a wide-open affair with fun for all (the two teams have scored a total of 16 runs in each of their two last meetings). Today's contest will also give the varsity a brief respite from its two pennant races, since Springfield is in neither the Ivy nor the Greater Boston League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Gymnasts Today | 4/16/1963 | See Source »

...horse tracks, bet $3.6 billion on how the nags would finish, and thereby contributed some $288 million to the treasuries of the 24 states that get a cut of the pari-mutuel proceeds. This, plus dog racing in seven states, Florida's jai alai and Nevada's wide-open casinos, pushed the gambling revenues even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: How to Raise Money Without Really Trying | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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