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Forty-seven years ago, the Wildcats were sent off to Pasadena to play California with signs reading GO WEST, YOUNG MEN AND SMELL THOSE ROSES and MAKE WALDORF SALAD--a reference to Cal coach Pappy Waldorf. Thanks to a 43-yd. run by Ed Tunnicliff with three minutes to go, Northwestern beat Cal 20-14 for coach Bob Voigts...
...excelled at anything. I was the "good kid," the "good worker," nothing more. I did well enough at Morris to win a letter for track, but after a while I found slogging cross-country through Van Cortlandt Park boring, and so I quit. I switched to the 440-yd. dash, because I could get it over with faster, but I dropped out after one season. We had a basketball team at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church. I was tall, fairly fast and the senior warden's son, and the coach was inclined to give me a chance. I spent most...
...when he rallied the 49ers from a 35-7 half-time deficit to a 38-35 overtime victory over the New Orleans Saints. In the 1981 N.F.C. championship game, he beat Dallas 28-27 on a last-minute touchdown drive that culminated in the Catch, a 6-yd. pass to wide receiver Dwight Clark at the back of the end zone. Three times Montana would be the Super Bowl mvp. After he was traded to the Chiefs in April '93, Montana added to his legend by leading them to stirring play-off victories over Pittsburgh and Houston. Ismay, Montana...
...largest hydroelectric dam. Already, mammoth earthworks on both banks of the construction site have begun to constrict the flow of the river where it gushes forth from the Xiling Gorge. Over the next 14 years, if all goes as planned, first an earthen coffer dam and then a 200-yd.-high concrete spillway and adjacent set of ship-lifting locks will block the swirling channel, transforming the Three Gorges into a single deep and currentless reservoir. Covering everything from ancient temples to contemporary slag heaps, the water will flood 28,000 acres of farmland and 20 towns and drive...
Unfortunately, the Jets receiver is not alone. On just about any fall weekend, as the 28 N.F.L. teams square off on their 100-yd. battlefields, three or four players will be knocked out of the action by concussions. At least 40 such injuries have occurred this year, and in the past six weeks the casualties have included an unusually large number of highly paid stars. Even in a sport long admired and abhorred for its body-crunching brutality, concern about the carnage is rising. Players, coaches and fans may never forget some of this season's scariest images: the vacant...