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Hevern described the active pass blocking which offensive line coach George Karras taught this year: "As the opponent comes toward you, you walt in a set position. The key to this is patience. At the next stage, when he's just about on you, you deliver an upward thrust with your head and your helmet as the primary weapons. You are taught to aim for his chin." Samuel Z. Goldhaber
...sheer stagecraft. Treasury Secretary John Connally's stopover in Japan last week rivaled a Kabuki drama. Two weeks before his arrival, rumors began emanating from the U.S. and Japan: in exchange for lifting the American import surcharge, Connally would demand that Japan revalue the yen upward by 15%, reduce the number of color television sets, automobiles and other big-selling items it ships to the U.S., pay part of the cost of keeping U.S. forces in Japan and drop trade barriers against U.S. farm goods. The Tokyo press started referring to the Secretary as "Typhoon Connally...
...millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled to the bunker 23 miles away. Seismographs registered a shock of the magnitude of seven on the Richter scale. But neither the earthquakes nor tidal waves that opponents of the test had feared in fact happened...
...provided 80 per cent of the funds and the Graduate School of Education the remaining 20 per cent. "We began to get signals from Washington that we needed signs of support from the University in order to get Federal funds next year," Barbara Lass, executive director of the Upward Bound program, said...
Harvard's commitment was in question because it has admitted only one student from its own program, and because Upward Bound here is associated with a graduate school rather than with the University as a whole. "It has not been in line with the Federal idea of how the program should operate," Lass said...