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Harvard played a catch-up game throughout the second half, almost pulling an upset over the talented Eli team late in the game on a goal by Bob McGee and two near-mins scoring attempts by Bob Thompson...
...foot-in-mouth campaign statements and woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up?we're 3rd down and 85 yds. to go." More often than not, the press found itself in that same dilemma?playing catch-up ball in a sprawling, chaotic game. In retrospect, readers must be grateful that team members scored as many times as they...
There are signs, in fact, that Agnew is learning, though critics would say mainly from his own mistakes. "He didn't go to Harvard," says someone who knows him well. "Washington is full of educated people, and he has had to play catch-up ball." On his trips overseas, he may have stumbled less than the press has suggested; certainly they were publicity flops, in part because of his own hostility to the press, but they were not necessarily failures from the point of view of Nixon's foreign policy. A high ranking State Department official feels that...
...prices jump so fast? In part it was because inflation during the last two quarters of 1971, which cover the period of Nixon's freeze, was held to the abnormally low rate of 2% or so. Thus some of the price increases early this year were onetime catch-up measures. Assistant Commerce Secretary Harold Passer predicted that inflation during the second quarter would show only a 4% gain and then "taper off." His forecast gained considerable credence when the March consumer price index appeared. For the first time in more than five years, store prices showed no increase above...
...raise and soft-coal miners a 15% increase. But the West Coast dock workers were cut down, and the first-year settlement in the ailing aerospace industry was clipped from 12% to 8%. The unionists had their own way in many policy matters, such as lifting the limit on catch-up settlements...