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First prize for the Best Individual Costume at the professional level goes without question to Fran Tarkenton, who looked more like a Lebanese dermatologist than a quarterback on Super Bowl Sunday. Fran had the advantage of working on his costume ahead of time, boning up for Sunday's dismal performance with a passing day in the NFC championship game two weeks earlier that was almost as bad. It was a Jekyll-Hyde job without peer...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Super Bowl, Brown Hockey Highlight Weekend Costume Party | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...drifted into the stands and was torn apart by fans. The N.F.L. went superpatriotic in 1972, when it staged a flyover by Air Force jets, having arranged for a plane to peel off into the "missing man" formation while P.O.W. families looked on. There have been theatrics spectacular, displays dismal. This year it is all up to Walt Disney Productions, which will assure us that "It's a Small World" and a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: THE SUPER SHOW | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESORTS: No-Snow Ski Season | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Although the basketball team has had a dismal 1-6 start, the season has not been as bleak as their record indicates...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Harvard Teams Have Little Vacation | 12/19/1976 | See Source »

...team that wins the IC4As after a dismal season the year before has to be a little original, right? Well, they are, and they've done it with a combination of hard work and a light, McCurdian attitude...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Cross Country Team Finishes 23rd in NCAAs | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

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