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...punt, the statisticians' palms got wet. How do you calculate a punting average with some kicks going for minus yardage? When Ernie Ladd got on the scales in summer camp, they had to take him out to a truck inspection station. Doctors' scales only go to 300 pounds. When Booth Lusteg went to the Buffalo Bills training camp, they were willing to take a chance because he claimed to be only 23. He was actually 27 and had no previous kicking experience. He booted the Bills to the playoffs. The New York Titans were going to strike because they weren...
...reaction, however, may have been at least partly inspired by the embarrassment they suffered at the hands of both the bold Progressives, who stole the opposition's thunder, and Vorster, who showed unseemly scorn for their party on election day. Happening upon the Prime Minister at a polling booth, Vorster's United Party opponent, Elias Olivier, approached him with a greeting. In response, the jut-jawed apostle of kragdadigheid jeered: "Go play marbles, young man"-and he refused even to shake Olivier's hand...
...third night after the kidnaping to try to locate the ransom "drop" point. Following instructions from his city desk via a short-wave receiver, Sorensen cruised through the drop area until he saw a car that he had been following stop by a phone booth on a lonely road. He presumed that it was the agent impersonating Mrs. Kronholm's husband, and he pulled his auto into a side road, hoping to witness what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup of a kidnap ransom. By then, Sorensen's editors had radioed him to abandon...
...April 15, 1865, just six hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and an accomplice rode up to the Maryland farmhouse of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. Booth needed treatment for the broken leg he had sustained in his leap from Lincoln's box to the stage of Ford's Theater, and, as the familiar story goes, he gave Mudd a fictitious name and kept his face hidden behind a muffler and false beard. Still, Mudd was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination plot and sentenced to life imprisonment. Though he was pardoned...
October 20: ABC's coverage of the Harvard band playing during halftime at the Harvard-Cornell game. As the band on the field saluted mediocrity by spelling, among other things, A-B-C, the announcers in the booth babbled on over the music about what a great tribute this was to the network...