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...Lions, Alex Karras, 27, was worried about those rumors that pro football players had been "shaving points" and associating with hoodlums. Alex decided to clear the air, and, fortified with indiscretion, taped a TV interview for NBC. He was sure that no pro football player would ever try to fix a game. But, personally, he enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never...
...government armored cars repeatedly attacked the entrenched Viet Cong positions at the tree line and along a canal bordering the paddies; each time they were driven back. Overhead, government planes pounded the Viet Cong with bombs and napalm, but the Communists did not break. "My God, we got a fix on one machine-gun position and made 15 aerial runs on it," said a U.S. adviser. "Every time we thought we had him, and every time that damned gunner came right back up, firing...
...loner who hates the spit and polish of the Navy and the "game" of putting on a front for the Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons-he puts the whole ship in an uproar. The Chinese are not supposed to grasp theory. Engine work is coolie labor. The intricate fabric of protective illusion cannot bear...
Radio Galaxy. The strongest "radio star" in the sky had the astronomers baffled for many years. Its powerful waves came from a patch of sky in the constellation Cygnus, and optical astronomers could find nothing there. At last the Palomar telescope, guided by a new and extremely accurate radio fix, photographed an extraordinary scene that looked like a collision of two enormous galaxies 500 million light-years away. Galaxy collisions are possible, though unlikely, and they might emit radio waves because of churning gases between their hundreds of billions of stars...
...Communist publications to be labeled as propaganda, deprives them of overt support from Moscow. Thus abandoned, the Worker, etc., seem to be drifting rudderless in Moscow's wake. Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party and a regular Kremlin visitor, was usually good for a navigational fix-until the State Department yanked his passport...