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...league is already following, but other items, like the abolition of football clinics and of spring practice, are also salutary. The last-named, which has evoked the most controversy, is probably more important symbolically than practically--it puts football in the same category as one-season sports instead of year-round activities...
...point is that so long as bowl games and post-season tournaments offer the lure of money and glory for winning teams, and so long as football and other sports are organized on a year-round basis, an "enforcible" code of admissions or scholarships will be virtually impossible to achieve. The evils in football are not surface stains caused by a few evil practitioners, as Mr. Jordan implies. They result from the bigness of the sport, and so long as the sport is big name, big news, and big money, the evils will be with...
Colonial's biggest business is in summer over its northern routes (see map). By merging, the lines would feed passengers into each other all the way from Havana, Cuba, equalize year-round traffic. CAB will probably approve the deal since it has been prodding Colonial to merge with another airline as a way out of its troubles. In 1951, Colonial pulled out of the red for the first time in five years with the help of a $13-per-ton-mile payment for carrying air mail v. 54? per ton mile to National operating on more profitable mail routes...
...biggest change, and the one that has boomed year-round painting, is paint with a rubber, instead of an oil, base. These paints are virtually odorless, will dry in an hour or so with windows closed. They are easy to apply, and it is almost impossible to leave brush marks with them. A year ago, only a handful of paint companies were marketing rubber-based paints. Now there are about 50, and in another year, more than 1,000 are expected to be cashing in on the bonanza...
Waterton Lakes for the bracing air, spectacular glacial lakes and year-round skiing in the perpetual snows...