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In the rain and mud of the Yankee Stadium another Army football team rose with a valor that confounded odds heavily in favor of Notre Dame yesterday as the ancient intersectional rivals fought to their first scoreless draw since 1922.
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DETROIT, Nov. 1 -- Playing in a steady twenty-mile wind under gray skies and in a 47-degree temperature was tough enough for Manhattan College's football team, but the University of Detroit made matters even tougher for Herb Kopf's Jaspers today.
1941Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications[†]
Arun Shourie is an Indian economist, investigative journalist, newspaper editor, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry (1998–2004). During the Emergency period, through his investigative reporting, he wrote extensively against the Indira Gandhi Government, exposing censorship, corruption and human rights violations; later when Ramnath Goenka made him the editor of The Indian Express he wrote extensively exposing corruption, this won him the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982, and the Padma Bhushan in 1990. He was awarded the prestigious International Editor of the Year Award in 1982, given by World Press Review, New York.
1941Dave Stockton, American golfer[†]
David Knapp Stockton is an American retired professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour.
1941Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Bruce Cripps, known professionally as Bruce Welch, is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows.