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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps part of the answer lies with the Harvard jock himself. Unlike many big-time athletic programs in big colleges, Harvard athletics does not and cannot recruit heavily and blatantly. The Ivy League does not permit it, and scholarships are severely limited. The athletic department does not have a very large budget to work with...
...performances so far at White House briefings have been relaxed, businesslike and occasionally jovial. When a Dutch correspondent asked last week if the press secretary's forebears came from Holland, terHorst provoked laughter by replying in fractured Dutch. When he confessed that he simply did not know the answer to one question, instead of trying to evade it, a few reporters burst into applause...
Evasion may not be necessary. Ford has long been one of the friendliest news sources in Washington. "He was always available," recalls Marjorie Hunter of the New York Times. "I'd call him on the House floor and he'd always come and answer questions. It's been the same during the last few months." As Vice President, Ford would stroll into the back of the plane on his frequent travels, double-olived martini in hand, and spend hours jawing with the reporters who regularly covered him. The camaraderie was strained only once, when a newcomer printed...
...spots on the schedule. The new Bill Cullen show, Winning Streak, is a kind of beardless Scrabble that becomes brain-busting when contestants try to make words of more than five letters with thousands of dollars in earlier winnings on the line. Split Second requires three participants to answer hard three-part questions. Concentration calls for the ability to do just that. The idea is to remember the prizes hidden behind numbers and match two of them to win the object. Split Second offers a nicely sadistic bonus to the day's big winner. He gets to select...
...popularity of the one television form for which no one but a network vice president has a kind word would defy the best minds in sociology. However, man's need to prove himself superior to his peers probably has something to do with it. Any bright preadolescent can answer most of the questions-High Rollers recently required a contestant to give the location of the Boston Tea Party-in the privacy of home, away from the pressure of the studio. The fantasy that one could do well up there if he (or she) just had the price...