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...Attorney General, who might be the most embarrassed of all, merely smiles a wan little smile and refers fondly to her as his "unguided missile." She also has an admirer in President Nixon, who has referred to her as "spunky" and told her to "give 'em hell...
...Wants 'Em? On a day of mourning for Martin Luther King, Stowe called a double practice. "If I got killed," he said, "I'd want everything to go on normally." During Columbia's 1968 campus uprising, he led 100 policemen through underground tunnels against the protesters. He ordered his white hats to use clean words and wear short hair: "I didn't particularly want our squad to be called 'the hippie crew.' I told 'em I wanted to be proud to be the Columbia coach...
...Columbia's crew improved, the supply of willing oarsmen dwindled. "Columbia may be a good place for radical liberals and what have you," says Stowe, "but they don't come down to the boathouse, and when they do come, you're not sure you want 'em." Last year the varsity lightweight squad was seeded sixth out of 15 in the crucial Eastern sprints. But the crew skipped the races to join the protest over Cambodia and Kent State. For 18 places on the freshman squad, the turnout dropped from 70 two years ago to 20 this...
...Stowe has quit his Columbia job to think things over. "These kids are so warped that you just can't get to 'em at the college level any more," he says. "Can you imagine? They actually have a homophile league on the campus now. I guess times are changingbut I'm not changing fast enough with them...
East Coast candidates, particularly in Ivy schools, are better known among their Harvard colleagues, and in the present democratic "shoot 'em down" consultations, less likely to survive. Ironically, names associated with Eastern universities are therefore more likely to be the strongest candidates...