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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TACKLES. Richard Harris, Grambling, 6 ft. 5 in., 265 lbs.; and Tody Smith, Southern California, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 lbs. As menacing as any of the great pro linemen Grambling has turned out (Ernie Ladd, Willie Davis, Buck Buchanan), Harris is the quickest of the bunch-as fast, coaches swear, as some of the team's running backs. "When he decides he's going in," says one scout, "that's it. You can't keep him out." Though Southern Cal's Smith missed six games this season because of injuries, he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME'S All-America Team: Prime Prospects For the Pros | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...Buck up, hearties, at Gazette...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Hey, What Rhymes With Heimert? | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

...features film clips of kids giggling, and promotes rock-Muzak­two of the songs have sold more than a million copies. Yet the Archie studio is skilled enough to do some sparkling letter "commercials" for Sesame Street. Studio Head Norman Prescott, who has learned that you can have your buck and pass it, too, explains: "It all starts and ends with the network. We might prefer to teach, but nobody is buying that from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...football fan returns home, weary but exhilarated from his vicarious participation in "the game." And then, in the blah hours of the early morning, he will lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend to throw two touchdown passes for the Oakland Raiders . . . Champ Clark

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: MYSTIQUE OF PRO FOOTBALL | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...rifle on his back like a guerrilla fighter. Line up the faculty. Torture the principal to learn where they keep the anxiety gases and the chemicals they put in the soup to make the kids stupid and passive." Corey sells pot, "for the money and the style and to buck the system." He is part Indian. He seizes his high school, holds it for four days, then escapes and forms a tribe of revolutionists who think of themselves as Indians. Their purpose is to recapture their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hating the Hate Machine | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

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