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...cocky statements to the press after the game. he completed nine of 16 passes for 120 yards, ran for 78 yards on seven carries, punted for a 36-yard average, scored one touchdown, set up another, and ran for 20 yards on a fake pnt when his roommate screamed, "Daylight!" from the sidelines...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Football Team Defeats Northeastern, 28-7 | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...most knowledgeable field general. Foster, who split duties with Crone on the freshman team last year, is the flashiest competitor since John McCluskey to challenge for the quarterback slot. The speediest, most elusive runner on the team, he is a superb scrambler and is extremely dangerous when given daylight. But his passing is deficient, and this is a serious problem to bring to a system that will use three receivers. The Crimson coaches would love to switch him to halfback. Foster isn't particularly wild about the idea...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Football After Last Year, Nowhere to Go but Up | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...specific visions of decay. Even in the mid-'30s, Reck saw Hitler as the culmination of an age of pseudorationalism that would destroy itself with its own greed, stupidity and madness. His pages are full of fleeting evidence: workers lined up in front of bordellos in broad daylight, language corrupted beyond nonsense, people bombed into insanity carrying their dead children in suitcases from city to city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brave Old World | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Summertime is down time, especially in show business and most particularly in the record industry. It sometimes seems it is a time of year when novelty items catch on, with titles that go on almost as long as the hours of daylight. Remember Lonnie Donegan and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight? Or how about Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini? Well, now there are two more examples of the same kind of lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Summer Diversions | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...guess that's about what I try to do." He will agonize for hours over his lead. One colorful effort dramatized L.B.J.'s technique of silencing the G.O.P. by stealing its issues: "There is no other word for it-the Republicans have been held up in broad daylight by a daring political desperado from Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson has shorn them of their britches, in the patois of the Pedernales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Horizontal in Washington | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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