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...endless, mindless expansion and dilution of professional sports, with a pro franchise in almost every city in the country, Harvard athletes now stand a much better chance than they have in past years of making it in the big time. In football, for instance, only John Dockery, who can flash a Superbowl championship ring from his days with the New York Jets, has been successful in recent years with...
...Flash Points. Nonetheless, the U.S.'s negotiating partners, allies and clients are pleased that Kissinger will continue to manage U.S. foreign policy. Less predictably, many governments are also pleased that Kissinger will be answering to a new President. The Japanese and some European leaders have long felt that the Nixon-Kissinger duo was too fond of close-to-the-vest diplomacy and the rawest sort of balance of power politics. Ford is perceived as more open, more willing to consult with America's allies, and therefore a beneficent influence on Kissinger...
That is not to say that Ford inherits a totally tidy foreign policy situation. Flash points and long-term concerns are all over Henry Kissinger's State Department maps. Real peace remains a long way off in the Middle East and Cyprus, while Viet Nam threatens to rear its troubled head again. Pentagon analysts are anxiously studying threatening military movements by North Viet Nam that included the alerting of at least one infantry division just above the Demilitarized Zone...
...wooden babies and chopped meat. Quite grotesque--too grotesque for the public taste in 1967. Capitol pasted new covers on the unreleased albums; mint-condition models of the original butchers are like two-dollar bills. Fans scurry up, hands reach out to touch the record, Instamatics and Nikons flash at the cover. A fellow in whitened jeans and a workshirt quietly offers $200--the stipulated minimum bid. There are no other takers; it's his. "I had nothing better to spend it on," says Peter Kunkel, who earned the money working in an Indiana bicycle shop. "Ever since my babysitter...
Bobby Dupea, strangled by a sense of his own failed talent, allowed Nicholson not only to turn on his own bursting temper, but to flash the charm that has its greatest single emblem in his smile, which seems to be cordially unsettling and made mostly of radium. David Staebler, on the other hand, required Nicholson to master a more dour, slippery confessional mode, to hide his character's feelings from himself under a barrage of autobiographical patchwork. Nicholson was equal to the task. It is his most daring performance, and one of his favorites...