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...football's prosperous National Football League, skeptics gave the rookie league the actuarial chances of Weeping Wa ter State Teachers facing the Chicago Bears. The A.F.L.'s players were mostly second-rate collegians, or castoffs from Canada and the N.F.L. - and the sandlot football they played bore scant resemblance to the tightly disciplined N.F.L. brand. That first ' season, one team scored four touchdowns in 20 min. to salvage a 38-38 tie; another opened up a 30-0 half-time lead, still had to kick a last-second field goal...
...from a time when American communities were isolated; in mobile America, the system is clearly outdated. An estimated 8,000,000 Americans were unable to vote in 1960 because of state residency requirements; they could have made a crucial difference in that election, which John Kennedy won by a scant 113,000 votes...
...some vociferous minority naysaying-notably from some conservatives who deplored the schema's encouragement of a "prudent" dialogue with atheists and from some Americans such as Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, who took exception to the schema's stern condemnation of atomic weapons and its scant suggestion of their peacekeeping capabilities...
...that more Western businessmen would share that ardor, but his yearning has little more chance of fulfillment than that of the girls. Fewer countries sent delegations to the fair than in the past. While the range of goods that the Chinese showed off was wider, the quality showed only scant improvement. The Chinese-made suitcases were so heavy as to constitute a load in themselves, had unreliable locks. Many of the canned foods caused heartburn. The Chinese wines tasted like fruit juice...
...already subscribed to sanctions against Rhodesia in the event of U.D.I., and that it would be a simple matter to cut off the nation's oil by embargo. Even though Portugal would probably keep some oil flowing into Rhodesia through Angola or Mozambique, it would be a scant and stopgap measure at best...