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...ruled as Chancellor, Erhard was a lonely and dejected figure. No such emotions troubled flinty old Konrad Adenauer, Germany's first postwar Chancellor and the onetime boss of both Erhard and Kiesinger. While the delegates clapped and cheered for the new Chancellor, Adenauer sat on the front bench and busily autographed copies of his memoirs for all comers...
Coach Floyd Wilson, who sat almost motionless throughout the massacre, began to substitute freely. Bench strength could be the key to the big season optimists talk about, and the second line continued to widen the lead...
...Illinois as minority whip. Ford, facing a party bitterly divided on issues of age and ideology, appealed for peace in the language he knew best. Every one of the 140 Republicans in the House "will be a first string player,' he promised. "Nobody is going to sit on the bench. All will be 60 minute players from the beginning...
...bench strength make up for lack of a big man? The Crimson has at least seven steady performers, and Dan Martell should prove to be the eighth, now that he has recovered from his ankle injury. But Harvard does not have a center other than Paul Waickowski, who has not yet proved he can do a consistently good...
...wobbly passes were unlikely to make anybody forget Terry Hanratty. Finally, with Notre Dame in possession on its own 30 and only 55 seconds left, Irish Coach Ara Parseghian decided to settle for a tie. While the crowd booed lustily, Notre Dame ran five plunges, all called from the bench. "I didn't want to blow the game," said Parseghian afterwards. "I didn't want to lose the ball." And so the question of who is No. 1 was left to the pollsters...