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...Crimson defensive backfield adjusted well to the slippery astroturf, and managed to minimize the damage inflicted by the talented Fahenstock. The line played its usual firebrand style of football, and linebackers Bob Woolway and Brad Stinn plugged the gaps. Cavanaugh conceded that the Crimson defense's stunting tactics and ability to contain the Cadets' running attack confused Army. "Harvard is an extremely well-coached football team," he added...
...cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said he: "What's the use? The numbers aren't there...
MARRIED. Angela Davis, 36, firebrand central committee member of the U.S. Communist Party and its candidate for Vice President this year; and Hilton Braithwaite, 36, lecturer in photography at San Francisco State University, where Davis also teaches; she for the first time, he for the second; in Birmingham...
...Firebrand journalism has cooled noticeably since the searing '60s. New Times has folded, Rolling Stone has retreated into rock-'n'-roll coverage, and "alternative" weeklies have found that stereo-equipment supplements are more lucrative than political manifestoes. But at least one rallying cry can still be heard above the mellowspeak. It comes from the San Francisco-based monthly Mother Jones (circ. 222,000), which calls itself "a magazine for the rest...
...matter was not quite so simple. The Knesset did indeed give preliminary approval to a bill declaring that the integrity and unity of the Holy City shall never be impaired. But the offensively worded measure had been submitted by Geula Cohen, a right-wing firebrand M.P. bitterly opposed to the autonomy negotiations. In approving her bill, the Knesset sent it along for review by its law committee, which will probably bury it discreetly. Nor has Begin ever kept secret from Sadat his view that Jerusalem is the "eternal, indivisible" capital of Israel. Thus the Cohen bill should not have been...