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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team wasn't present. AAU officials and U.S. team coach Jack Nelson tried to downplay the effect of the suspensions on the meet by keeping no running team scores and saying things like. "Let's concentrate on the swimmers that are here." But you just can't rob a bunch of 14 and 15 year old girls of their team spirit; after Saturday night's finals, for instance, the flagwaving American youngsters blurted out, "Give me a "U", Gimme an "S", Gimme an "A"; Whattaya got? United States of America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!!!" "It sure...

Author: By John S. Bruce and Robert Grady, S | Title: Conduct Unbecoming | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Bryant used to be dogged by horror stories about his tough methods, but he has mellowed considerably, and the mountains gladly come to Muhammad. Says Offensive Tackle Jim Bunch: "Every boy who plays high school football wonders what it would be like to play for Coach Bryant and wishes that he could. It doesn't matter where you grow up, Coach Bryant is the standard everyone wants to measure himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Biggest Bear in the Briar Patch | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Muppet Show pals and such assorted human characters as Elliott Gould, Carol Kane and Telly Savalas on his journey to Los Angeles. At one point the Muppets are riding in an old Studebaker, with Fozzie at the wheel, several others in .he front seat and another bunch in the rear. Jammed under the dashboard and behind the back seat with all of their cables and TV monitors lie half a dozen puppeteers. In addition to Henson and Oz there are Jerry Nelson, who does Floyd and Dr. Strangepork, and can project nine different voices; Richard Hunt, a young, curly-headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...North End back in 1950. That one was concocted by 11 men, seven of whom slipped into the Brink's warehouse one evening wearing pea-coats and Halloween masks and made off with the loot. At the time, the Brink's gang wasn't looked on as a bunch of affable fellows who just happened to stumble onto the crime of the century. In fact, a lot of people were convinced that the gang had wide underworld connections. Even six years after the robbery, when the case finally came to trial, the judge had difficulty empanelling jurors, most of whom...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...blame must be with Friedkin, since the cast couldn't be better. The Brink's gang is played by a bunch of lovable actors who delight in the roles of these bumbling underdogs. Heading the group is Peter Falk as the mastermind--if you can call him that--of this near-perfect heist. His criminal genius is somewhat in doubt, since the movie opens with one of his novice efforts, the burglary of a sausage factory. After much tool-dropping and other displays of incompetence, the job ends with Falk hiding in a room full of chickens, only...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

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