Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There might be an Ivy League war on tap for Saturday, but by the tone of a conversation recorded yesterday between Crimson coach Joe Restic and his Brown counterpart John Anderson, you'd think that the Crimson-Bruin confrontation will be more like the annual Friends Academy PTA meeting...
...ANDERSON: That's right, Joe, it's been a year now since we last socialized. We really ought to do this more often...
...ANDERSON: You know, Joe, you're absolutely right, and I've been meaning to apologize to you for my behavior last year. I guess I just got carried away...
...ANDERSON: Yeah, but Joe, look at the favor I did you. I angered you so much that a week later, when Cozza and his boys paid you a visit, you were much better prepared to receive them...
Coming after two decades of severely strained U.S.-Egyptian relations, however, the new era of good will did have its bad moments. At a banquet given by Sadat at Washington's Anderson House, Ford raised his glass of sparkling Catawba juice and said, turning to Sadat, "To you, and the people you represent, the great people of the government of Israel." Amid gasps, Ford could only say lamely, "Egypt... excuse me." Later the two leaders reportedly laughed politely over the slip. Sadat's press secretary, Tahsin Bashir (see THE PRESS), cracked a barbed joke, "Perhaps President Ford...