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...Longhorns meet the University of Miami Hurricanes in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, the football teams will have to share billing with a third powerhouse: Mobil Corp. The oil company's name will be emblazoned on stadium signs and embedded in the AstroTurf at the 50-yd. line. In fact, the extravaganza has been officially rechristened the Mobil Cotton Bowl. Mobil earned title rights to the game for seven years by paying millions of dollars to the organizers, the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association...
With 24:26 left, Harvard had its only corner of the second half. Whyte took a Ceci Clark pass at the 20-yd. line and lifted the ball over Ostapko's right shoulder. The goal was a replay of the score Whyte netted to defeat Princeton on Saturday...
...Crimson plans to use its talented ground attack, featuring leading rusher Andy Bell, senior Bert Smyers, junior fullback Matt Johnson and sophomore halfbacks Robb Hirsch and Kendrick Joyce. Hirsch will move into the starting lineup at halfback after his 70-yd. performance on just five carries in the Crimson's 19-13 victory over Fordham last Saturday earned him Ivy Sophomore of the Week honors...
Simonne Caillot, a writer and former schoolteacher in the Normandy town of St.-Lo, has refused to eat for more than three weeks, and she shows no signs of ending her hunger strike. Caillot, 45, is protesting to ensure that the strip of trees on a 9,000-sq.-yd. plot of land she once owned will not be felled by its new owner...
...front line is a classic stalemate, with Burmese and Karen troops separated by only a 30-yd. killing zone of mines, bamboo stakes and barbed wire. Kyaw Lin has been close enough to spot the shovels of Burmese soldiers digging deeper trenches across the way. Ammunition is scarce, and so the Karens rely on mines handcrafted from bamboo and fuse-lighted grenades that are no more sophisticated than the ancient British Grenadier devices that gave them the name. Sometimes the Karens launch the grenades by catapult, stretching thick rubber bands between two stakes like a giant slingshot...