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...Catholic boys' home. "I fell in love with coaching," Wootten says, "and changed my major from prelaw to education." Now 46, he has remained a high school coach despite a stream of offers from colleges-including Wake Forest and Maryland. He has even said no thanks to a feeler from Notre Dame. Why? "It's satisfaction with my work and the enjoyment of working with young people when they are most pliable. It's not that I see something in college coaches' lives that I don't like; it's that I see something...
...Carter Administration early this month made a top-secret approach to Hanoi to determine whether Viet Nam would receive an American peace mission to discuss the reconciliation of the two countries. The diplomatic feeler, TIME has learned, was ordered by the White House and carried out by the State Department through contacts between the U.S. and Vietnamese embassies in Paris...
...district court blocking United's offer on the ground that the company did not spell out eventual merger plans. Undaunted, United resubmitted its offer, changing it to a bid to buy "any and all" Otis shares. Early last week Otis announced that it had received a last-minute feeler for a takeover from another, unidentified corporation. But the other company could not raise all of the cash in time, and Otis' managers were uncertain that they could win a long legal battle with United. In post-midnight talks last week, United decided to sweeten its offer...
...song put Haggard into the millionaire class, which he did not mind. It also earned him a reputation as a spokesman for the right wing, which he did. Haggard is a patriot, all right, but his own kind: instinctive, apolitical. When George Wallace sent him a feeler asking him to campaign in the Alabama Governor's re-election campaign in 1970, Haggard refused...
...nominee put out a feeler to Mondale. The Minnesotan let McGovern know that he wanted to run for re-election to the Senate. Next he called Ribicoff, who also demurred, preferring, at his age, 62, to remain in the Senate. Again McGovern tried, this time telephoning Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson; again he was rebuffed. Nelson said that he had promised his wife he would remain in the Senate. During yet another afternoon call, McGovern informed Kennedy that he was still serious about Kevin White, who had already told McGovern he was available. Delighted, the mayor made tentative arrangements...