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...Dyke to his ex-wife and get a leg to stand on. In return, the two find a candidate to marry Debbie: Van Johnson, a chipmonkish used-car salesman. Up to here, the infighting and jabbing are worth watching. But in the final rounds, Writer Norman Lear and Director Bud Yorkin pull their punch lines. The result: an unconvincingly happy finale...
...filing papers for a Sept. 26 preliminary run off, including an Oxford-educated Brahmin, a mother of six, a blind man, a city councilman named lannella and an ex-con named lannello, a man named Mines and another named Hynes. There were also three Collinses, including Boston Globe Columnist Bud Collins, who cracked: "There may be more voters in the race than out by the time everybody has announced...
According to the indictment, the rigging was engineered mainly by five Chicagoans: Businessman Osborn Andreas, 63, Financier Mark Rolland, 33, Attorney Robert Ness, 38, onetime Stockbroker Spero Furla, 42, and Stock Salesman Burton ("Bud") Kozak, 36, the only one not named as a defendant. Andreas had been chairman, treasurer and a director of Pentron before he stormed out after a bitter "management dispute" in December 1965. Pentron had lost $2,400,000 that year, but Andreas, according to the charges, was determined to unload his 12% shareholding at "as high a price as possible." Ness, Rolland, Furla and Kozak promised...
...money for his school. Answered Cross: "We want to build a university of which the football team can be proud." He meant it as a joke, and the remark does seem inappropriate today: Oklahoma's football fortunes have been on the decline since the resignation of Coach Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson in 1964, while Cross has been steadily nudging his school toward standards of quality achieved by such state university giants as California, Wisconsin and Michigan...
...expert on sprinting techniques who has written books on the subject and coached three previous world record holders (Harold Davis, Ray Norton and Dennis Johnson), Winter concedes that Smith is still only a mediocre starter-"he used to be terrible"-a weakness that Bud is trying hard to correct. To improve Tommie's drive off the blocks, Winter makes him practice starts in a gymnastic belt equipped with reins that the coach hangs onto for dear life. He has to. "Tommie is getting so he can drag me right down the track," says Winter. He also...