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Discreet Rhetoric. Dr. Holland likes to be called "Brud," a nickname for "brother" that his sisters hung on him years ago. A husky (230 Ibs.) six-footer, he still carries himself with the agility of a man who was twice an All-America end at Cornell and was elected in 1965 to the Football Hall of Fame...
...minutes of the second half, Dartmouth practically matched Harvard score for score. Then the Crimson cagers. down 83-73. began to rally Jean Wilkinson hit two charity tosses and 30 seconds later stole a pass dribbled the length of the court. and scored. Stan Mark hit a 20-footer and a minute later Harvard's James Brown blocked a shot and threw the ball to Wilkinson under the Dartmouth hoop. Wilkinson scored to tighten the game at 83-81 Dartmouth...
...John Bennett floated a 20-footer past Crimson goaltender Bruce Durno six minutes later, and the near-capacity crowd, previously silent, turned Meehan Rink into a snakepit-for about two minutes...
...lanky six-footer who is constantly behind schedule and late for appointments, Nader can be painfully shy among strangers. When asked to give his name in hotels and on planes, he often tries to avoid recognition and replies, "Nader, initial R." He even keeps his birthday secret lest admirers send him cakes or other gifts. His driving intensity about work can sometimes trap him into hasty accusations. When economists in the Johnson Administration once met with auto industry leaders in an effort to win voluntary price restraint, Nader was too quick to accuse the Administration of "acquiescing" to Detroit...
...Francisco, earned a Harvard liberal arts degree in 1949, then joined the Chronicle as a copy boy. He has been married to his childhood sweetheart for 23 years, likes to cruise with his wife and four children on their three "yachts" -two eight-foot sailboats and a 14-footer. His column now appears in 100 newspapers, and he is embarrassed by how easily he can pick up an extra $1,100 any time he gives a lecture. Hoppe gets his ideas for five columns a week, he says, by "reading through the paper until I come to an item that...