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...Cardinals in conclave, but their overwhelming preoccupation will, of course, be with the secrecy-shrouded, ritual-encrusted process of choosing the next Vicar of Jesus Christ. According to one frequently heard scenario, the right and the left will knock each other off and a moderate will emerge as the winner???an Italian moderate. The trouble with that scenario is that two clearly defined blocs no longer exist. Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes. The candidates form a mass of middle-readers with muted political coloration. There are no out-and-out progressives...
...computerized scouting system that catalogued the requirements of the sport in fractions of inches and split seconds. The Cowboys have turned up blue-chip players with clockwork regularity, including prospects found in fields foreign to the gridiron. Track stars, basketball players ?not to mention the occasional Heisman Trophy winner???have contributed to the impressive return on Dallas' investments: the play-offs eleven times in the past twelve years, five National Conference titles, one Super Bowl championship...
...spirit might be willing, but it takes a powerful amount of flesh to make a football winner???and the most optimistic experts did not figure Notre Dame for much this year. The school hadn't had a winning season in five years; 22 out of 38 lettermen had graduated from last year's squad that lost seven of its nine games. Parseghian rebuilt the team as though he were running a fire sale...
Gallant Fox would have made more money than the world's greatest money- winner???Ksar, the French horse ($335,-340)?if he had not been beaten in the Travers. Jim Dandy, California outsider, at 100 to i, beat him that day on a sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had had a hunch about Jim Dandy, someone had guessed what he could do, for his owner, young Chaffee Earl, had pointed him all season for the Travers, had hitched his luxurious horsecar to the end of a coast-to-coast express so that he would receive every comfort. Few believe...
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