Word: auerbach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weren't for the State Department, natives of countries around the globe would play better hoop and learn to love the United States, Arnold "Red" Auerbach, general manager of the Boston Celtics, told a Kennedy School crowd last night...
Waving a six-inch stogie as he growled his prepared notes, Auerbach said all foreign service officers hail from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts, Georgetown "or some such place where they learn which fork to use and what to say and how to kiss rear ends...
...What they don't learn," Auerbach added, "is how to deal with people. All they do is go to cocktail parties--you'd be amazed at the number of cocktail parties--and how are they going to reach the people...
...unassuming, Glashow is whimsical and voluable, sharing his physics and sense of humor with whomever will partake of it. On a given morning, you can glimpse him through his open door, feet up, talking shop with an attentive colleague, while smoking an carly-morning cigar that would make Red Auerbach choke. He's got an incongruous poster of fish species on one wall of his office, and Einstein up on another; a pair of cross country skis stand in a corner. Behind him rests a picture of the first observed "charmed quark"--a species he originally identified--at which...
...aware negotiations had ended until he received a call from a reporter yesterday afternoon. He plans to meet with the Basketball Players' Association today to complain about what he termed "implied threats and intimidation" during negotiations with the president and general manager of the Celtics, Arnold "Red" Auerbach...