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...Apres-Midi d'un Faune and are embarrassed. Stuhldreher frowns, then whispers something to Crowley. From two rows back, Fielding Yost shushes him. Nearby, Knute Rockne is worried he will not have enough money to pay his hotel bill. New Orleans seems a lot fancier than South Bend...
Rockne is uneasy. Last night at a party he met Brent Musburger, who seemed to be a nice fellow. But Rockne's suit was afraid of Musburger's suit, and kept trying to bend the wrong way at the knees and elbows. Rockne's suit is wrinkled and brown. Musburger's is the finest in town, but others nearly as rich and dark trap the light of distant stars in the lobbies of the Hilton and the Hyatt Regency...
...result, little Lou Holtz from East Liverpool, Ohio, looms as one of the biggest men on -- and well beyond -- the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind. His 35-minute motivational video, Do Right with Lou Holtz of Notre Dame (price: $595), has sold briskly. The living, breathing version of Holtz is totally booked on the lecture circuit through 1990 at an estimated $10,000 per inspirational pop. Moreover, he has his own syndicated cable TV show and a national radio call-in program, and he's featured in magazine ads promoting the Holtz philosophy, paid for by Volkswagen. These...
...problems and the solutions are beginning to wear on him. In addition, he is doubtless feeling the stress stemming from accusations that he gave money through a third party to a player at his last school, Minnesota. Holtz emphatically denies it. Now one hears the word burnout in South Bend. "Football encompasses his whole life. It's everything," says Kevin Holtz. Says Ara Parseghian, who quit, worn out, after eleven successful years: "I told him all summer, 'Please pace yourself.' " When asked what lessons he draws from the experiences of Parseghian and Leahy, who also was totally consumed...
...asked to bend the law for someone who broke the law." Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin was railing against the proposal, which the Senate passed by a 78- to-17 vote last week, to restore Oliver North's $23,000 military pension. It was halted after his July conviction for destroying Government documents related to the Iran-contra scandal...