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Died. Frank McGee, 52, host of NBC'S Today program since 1971 and one of television's most prominent newsmen; of pneumonia following treatment for cancer of the bone marrow; in Manhattan. McGee was best known for his crisp, calm reporting at times of stress, epitomized by his twelve-hour marathon as NBC'S co-anchor man the day President Kennedy was assassinated. A seemingly ubiquitous narrator of documentaries, McGee became a lay expert on rocketry while covering the U.S. space program. Although suffering severely from back pains for the past few months, he bravely continued...
Browne challenged Lindner in the second set with strong serves to his backhand and crisp volleys. However, Lindner easily won the third set. Harvard breezed through the number two, three and four matches as junior John Ingard vanquished Charles Einsiedler, 6-2, 6-2, and sophomore Gary Reiner routed Tom Koerner, 6-3, 6-1. Veteran junior Chip Baird defeated Jim Ware, 6-4, 6-2, in what Baird called a "blase match...
...Kevin Phillips, 33, a onetime Nixon campaign aide. Syndicated in about 125 papers, Phillips' crisp columns have harshly criticized the President for diverting Republican opportunities for conservative reform into "pep rallies, zigzagging, shallow domestic policies, dress uniforms for the White House police, and real estate deals with aerosol kings." Phillips has balked at impeachment because of "the chaotic consequences of allowing pressure groups to bring down a President...
...list." On Dec. 31 St. Clair resigned the private practice that earned him about $300,000 a year in order to take the $42,500 federally paid job as Nixon's chief Watergate counsel. In action around the White House, St. Clair has struck Haig as "crisp and buttoned-down, but thoughtful and detailed." Adds Presidential Counsellor Bryce N. Harlow: "He's very lucid and clear-minded, very objective, self-assured and poised...
...round when Ned Yetten of B.C. repeatedly denied close-in bids. Largely because of illness and injury, Harvard could not keep up the same kind of sustained attack against Yale that eventually dented Yetten for 11 goals. The Crimson's attack degenerated into one-man sallies instead of the crisp passing and fast skating that is ordinarily the key to Harvard's attack...