Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is usually known as the place where McGuffey's Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football. After last week it may also be remembered as the site of the U.S. debut of the latest in a long line of Russian pianists that includes Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. Lazar Berman, 45, is unknown in the U.S. and Western Europe. But collectors of Soviet recordings, as well as many pianists throughout the world, have for years praised his talent...
...Dwight Eisenhower's son John, a Nixon inlaw, composed a hearts-and-flowers allegory about "the Coach" whose team has committed errors "out of an excessive loyalty to him and the Institution." As it turns out, the man described was onetime Army Football Coach Earl H. ("Red") Blaik, and his dilemma was the 1951 cheating scandal at West Point that decimated his team. Eisenhower noted that Blaik rebuilt his team and retired with honor. The moral: "Is there any reason to believe that our nation's Coach, Richard Nixon, will do less...