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That is what U.S. fans are learning to expect from the colleges: rootin', tootin', wide-open, score-a-million, hell-for-leather football. The season is only a month old. But it might have been New Year's Day and Bowl time last weekend for all the thunderous collisions among titans, the staggering upsets, and impossible heroics. In the same Dallas Cotton Bowl where Navy's Staubach left everyone limp the night before, another 75,000 fans almost expired from excitement the next afternoon when No. 2-ranked Texas crushed No. 1-ranked Oklahoma...
...rootin' tootin' Texas, this year's Democratic gubernatorial primary was shaping up as a pretty tame affair. Favored to win without much trouble was Lawyer John Connally, 44, who resigned last December as the Kennedy Administration's Navy Secretary to run for Governor with the support of his longtime friend, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. But last week, just three days before the deadline for filing, two new candidates jumped eagerly into the race. The late entries: Incumbent Governor Price Daniel, 51, and former Army Major General Edwin A. Walker...
Horses & Crime. The oat still thrives. CBS's Marshal Dillon (James Arness) now has one solid hour to thicken the air with Gunsmoke; and the imitable Paladin, clearly out to impress the FCC's rootin' tootin' Newton Minow, was reading a Dostoevsky novel during an episode of this year's Have Gun, Will Travel...
...Brooklyn. But things are heating up fast enough. Giant Manager Bill Rigney makes no bones about who is going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried into the ballpark, followed by a full-throated bellow from the stands: "CHARGE...
...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...