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...Carolina, he says, because "I can't see getting on a subway and going to school." Also of the varsity squad, Bob Cunningham, 20, comes from The Bronx; Stan Groll, 19, is still searching about Chapel Hill for a corner delicatessen where he can buy a corned-beef sandwich like the ones he used to eat in Brooklyn; Pete Brennan, 20, hails from Brooklyn; and Tommy Kearns, 20, from New Jersey...
...Complaint. North Carolina fans have no complaint, and none pretended it was any accident that there were so many misplaced Northerners in town. In 1953, when Carolina decided to beef up its team to make it a match for neighboring Duke, Wake Forest and North Carolina State, the Chapel Hill authorities sent for Frank Joseph McGuire, blue-eyed, wavy-haired son of a New York City cop. After five years as coach at St. John's University, McGuire had a readymade network of high-school coaches anxious to ship him the fanciest talent from the basketball breeding grounds around...
...which they had paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...
Gathering one night last week at Augusta's Bon Air Hotel, just two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's vacation cottage, 700 Georgians and South Carolinians sat down to roast sirloin of baby beef and a large serving of the kind of speech-making that Ike deplores. Firing up the faithful: Democratic Senator-elect Herman Talmadge and his longtime mentor, Georgia Political Boss Roy V. Harris, who was being testimonialized for 35 years of service to his state...
Though Anthony Eden seems to be coming safely through his political crisis over Suez, Britain's economic day of reckoning is still to come. "It's easy enough to rally the roast-beef opinion of the country," said one disillusioned Tory last week, "but the fact is, we're in a helluva mess. We haven't a shred left in the Middle East, and not much anywhere else...