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Occasionally the theatrics are improvised: in the 1957 Grey Cup a halfback racing down the sidelines suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside...
...units protecting the Third Army. As a result of such maneuvers, troops of the United Nations Emergency Force moving into the battlefield area to keep the peace found it hard to find the lines. In some places, the blue-helmeted U.N. troops discovered Egyptians and Israelis a scant 30 yds. away from one another. In other places, the lines were kilometers apart...
...reached Cairo after an 800-mile, cross-desert taxi ride from Benghazi and was one of 14 newsmen allowed to move up to the Sinai front. "After traveling about 25 miles northward along the front," he reports, "our convoy came to a halt when an artillery shell exploded 300 yds. away. Then an Israeli Skyhawk streaked past. Later newsmen saw smoke rising from what they thought was a bomb hit. But the unit commander said it was the plane, which had been shot down." Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, usually based in Washington, arrived in Benghazi two days after Wynn, followed...
Blasting Holes. Last week, after reviewing Buffalo game films, San Diego Charger Defensive End Lionel Aldridge pronounced O.J. "frightening." That he was: though the erratic Bills lost 34-7, O.J. battered through the Chargers' tough defense for 103 yds.-a pace that, if continued, will allow Simpson to break Jim Brown's season record of 1,863 yds...
Says Buffalo Guard Reggie McKenzie, one of the behemoths assigned to blast open holes for Simpson: "We think we can get O.J. 2,000 yds...