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...crucial turnabout for Frost came during an agreed-upon seven-day Easter break in the interviewing. It was then that his staff was close to panic. Frost later conceded that he was "genuinely daunted before Easter" by Nixon. Frost had been partying as usual, leaving one taping to don a tux and emcee the Hollywood premiere of a movie he had helped produce. But then came the baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went...
When the Coast Guard later encountered the Shevchenko and the Snechkus, seizure was recommended by the State Department, and the President gave the green light. Carter explained his action to reporters who stopped him outside the First Baptist Church of Calhoun, Ga., where he was observing the Easter holidays. "We just had to draw the line somewhere," the President said...
...Watson stood in the center of the Bosky Amphitheater at the 18th green of the Augusta National golf course last Sunday and stroked in a tap-in to win the Masters. Watson was not quite as resplendent as Jimmy Demaret was when he won the tournament on Easter Sunday, 1947, clad in canary yellow from head to foot, but then all anyone notices in the end is the green jacket traditionally given to the Masters champion...
...Harvard armada had a pleasant vacation, edging the Naval Academy on Easter Sunday to capture the prestigious Owen Trophy for the third time in the last four years. Senior Tom Reps sailed home with low-point honors as the meet's top skipper, as he and classmate Terry Neff bested the rest of the 12-team field in the whitecaps off West Point...
...laxwomen fell to Penn by an 8-5 margin, a fact which is almost as irreligious as that of having to spend Easter weekend in Philadelphia in the first place...