Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon has been thinking about football a lot in the last year. And it's not just because he's looking for something to keep his mind off Watergate. He still remembers those two plays he sent to Dolphin coach Don Shula and Redskin boss George Allen, respectively, that bombed out when put into action. A lot of things have been working out like that for Nixon lately...
...ALLEN DRURY...
Long ago, in the sane dull Washington of 1958, Journalist Allen Drury wrote his first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters...
Then history began to play tricks on Allen Drury. The U-2 incident and Khrushchev banging his shoe. First moves into Viet Nam. Civil rights in the South. In the 1962 sequel to Advise and Consent, Drury tried to keep up. He escalated his story into a counterinsurgency war in Central Africa, coupled with radical attempts to exploit racial strife in the U.S. He also moved his senatorial heroes into the still windier forum of the United Nations. But these days no writer should play "Can You Top This?" with history...
Stoeckel has given Harvard its most consistent quarterbacking since George Lalich graduated way back when in 1968. The senior signal-caller has hit on 67 of 122 passes for 903 yards and eight touchdowns, and is second-ranked in the Ivies (behind Cornell's Mark Allen) with 50 for 93 for 660 yards and five scores...