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...Chalk. Freed by his assistants from chalking diagrams on a blackboard, West has concentrated on overall strategy and getting the best possible play from his charges. But it is in inspiring somewhat lackluster talents that he has excelled. With the coach leading the cheers, the Los Angeles bench resembles a rah-rah college crew more than a collection of blasé professionals. West passes the hours on planes and in the team bus building the Lakers' confidence and, seemingly, willing them into winners. A genuine camaraderie has developed among the Lakers, and West has led the off-court high...
...makeup of the group, Smith dismissed the idea as "political suicide." He insisted instead on Henry Kissinger's proposal of a balanced black-white council of state operating over a two-year period. The two schemes, Smith told a radio-TV audience last week, were "as different as chalk and cheese." Black African leaders, however, have viewed the Kissinger plan-or at least Smith's interpretation of it-as merely a starting point for negotiation...
...Hayden Gallery was reviewed critically in Ergo: "One can see the show in 10 seconds, the time it takes to walk across the gallery. The pieces do not differ significantly from each other except that in one case the conduct is curbed rather than angular, the shapes smeared in chalk rather than paint, etc. An electrician might want to take a closer look at the arrangements of the wires and junction boxes, but I don't think many others would want to bother...
...first half of the third. Freshman Jon Garrity registered his first varsity goal at 6:53 on assists from John cochrane and Jon Schuster which made the score 4-0 Harvard and turned most thoughts to the question of whether or not Crimson goalie Brian Petrovek would chalk up a shutout in the season's first contest...
...author's worth. During their collaboration, in a moment of Beckett's despair for the fate of his efforts, Seaver blurts, "But Mr. Beckett. You're crazy! Don't you realize who you are? Why...you're a thousand times more important than...Albert Camus, for example!" We can chalk this up to youthful enthusiasm, but upon mature consideration Seaver begins his quasihagiographical introduction: "Samuel Beckett is, in my opinion, one of the two or three most important writers of the twentieth century." Isn't there enough of this on the flyleaf...