Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another object of the shakeup: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, revealed that he had been asked to resign as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission-and that he would do so. The commission, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, was meant to be an independent watchdog agency, scrutinizing progress in civil rights, including efforts of the Federal Government. Hesburgh, who served energetically on the commission since its formation, has been highly critical of Nixon's antibusing positions and the Administration's lethargy in enforcing civil rights laws...
Died. Margaret Webster, 67, Shakespearean director and last member of one of Britain's most famous theatrical families; of cancer; in London. Descended from a 19th century clan of classical actors and the daughter of Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...
...public schoolers. Take football; I mean Jackson High might as well have stayed inside the locker room and popped sits for 48 minutes than bother showing its colors on the same Tupper Field as the Marian Knights. Granted, Catholics had a rich tradition being from South Bend-Notre Dame-Golden Dome-Fightin' Irish-Fraternal Order of Polish Falcons, Nest No. 9 country; but still, that can't be the only reason...
...this didn't just start in high school either. The parochial underground organization tapped promising snowball throwers around Revere Park for a place of importance in their youth football movement in the fall. They lured the trusting ill' taters into their lair by dangling Notre Dame-Southern Cal tickets in front of the poor unsuspecting felias. I mean the movement knew all the methods of warfare in child psychology...
...wants out after 1973. New Hampshire Coach Jim Root was so stung by a 40-7 loss to Delaware last year that he left his job rather than "subject my team to that again." Says he: "They're absolutely overwhelming. They should play teams like Ohio State, Notre Dame and Alabama...