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...trumpeting, Dialectician Spandarian ignored the objective fact that the U.S. basketball team at Santiago was a third-rate Air Force pickup squad. And a year later, when the Russians during a U.S. tour lost four out of six games against Industrial League teams, Spandarian again looked at his score card through rose-colored glasses. To a Soviet coaches' conference, he reported confidently: "The contests between the Soviet and U.S. teams were like a struggle of equals. The decisive advantage the Americans once had no longer exists...
Deceptive Innocence. Nowhere in the nation is touch football growing faster than in Los Angeles, where the sport is played by some 100,000 members of organized teams, and estimates are that another 400,000 players turn out for pickup games. Such elusive backs as Washington State's Keith Lincoln (see above) learned some of the tricks of their trade on local teams. Games crop up like clover on the lawns surrounding the Coliseum. On nearby beaches, college students play in the 100° temperatures of August. One collegian has a touch team that takes on all challengers...
Looking at the statistics, the Labor Department reported that it sees no impending pickup in new orders that would spur overall factory output: "So far in the fall-period, factory output has not shown a pickup of seasonal proportions...
...Pickup. Most klaxoners, known by such names as Yvette of the Opel, Rossana of the Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages...
SMALLER COMPACTS, to compete with Volkswagen's snub-nosed Micro-Bus, panel delivery van and pickup truck, will be brought out by Ford this year. In Detroit's best kept secret, Ford has developed new compact line with smallest wheelbase (less than 95 in.) of any U.S. automaker. Engine of new compacts is in front. Price will be in $1,900-$2,600 Volkswagen range...