Word: coached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things are getting pretty tough when a man can't even play a few days of golf without putting the entire Northeast in a furor. At least that's the way it must seem to Harvard football coach John Yovicsin, who just started off his Harvard coaching career with a bang by pulling a disappearing act for three days...
Police in Pennsylvania proclaimed the Crimson coach a missing person yesterday, but early this morning the missing person found himself. Yovicsin picked up a paper, saw his name in headlines, and ran to the nearest phone to inform the world that Harvard would, after all, have a head coach come September...
...often the case, it was Yovicsin's wife who started worrying first, and with good reason. Her husband had informed her that he would be stopping on the way back from Harvard for a few day's golfing. En route to Cambridge, Yovicsin exerted the football coach's privilege of changing his mind and decided to switch his schedule around, golfing before going to Cambridge...
...passed their costs on to consumers, the airlines have not. In two decades bus revenues per passenger-mile have gone up 27%, train revenues 42%. But a one-way, first-class plane ticket from New York to Chicago has edged up only 15? (to $45.10), is even cheaper on coach flights. Says United Air Lines' Vice President Robert E. Johnson: "We have held the price line to the last nickel; but we cannot keep on holding it when we are conspicuous among the industries around...
...registered voters trooped to the polls and approved the project by the biggest majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...