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McInally, who set a Harvard single-season pass reception record a week ago, was phenomenal on Saturday. Defying double, and often triple, coverage, the lanky split receiver ran over around and through the frantic Brown secondary en route to shattering three Harvard receiving records and tying an Ivy mark...
After returning to headquarters, the police told reporters about a frantic gunfight they said they'd had with the Panthers. But later investigations disclosed that all the bullet holes from the so-called "shoot-out" had been made by shots fired into the building--that is, by the police...
...White House staff had a problem. During one 30-day period, President Nixon had bombarded his aides with 21 separate memos on unfavorable press coverage of his Administration. His demands that subordinates somehow quell offending journalists and generate more pleasing reportage and commentary set off a frantic scramble. In a memo to H.R. Haldeman, Jeb Stuart Magruder complained that "this continual daily attempt to get the media" was "very unfruitful and wasteful of our time." Magruder had a better plan...
...process by which Al Chatham came to Cambridge involved representatives of 125 citizen groups plus representatives of teachers, administrators and students serving on interviewing panels to quiz five final applicants for the job. Unlike the frantic petition drive for signatures to support incumbent Frank J. Frisoli, which was mislabeled "citizen participation," this process gave Cambridge citizens a choice...
Striding with a fixed smile into a solemn gathering of newsmen, Nixon confronted television cameras and declared that he had been the victim of reporting that he assailed variously as "outrageous, vicious, distorted, frantic and hysterical" (see Hugh Sidey on the press conference, page 23). Perspiring and barely containing his anger at times, Nixon insisted that "the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." The recent scandal-inspired shocks that have so jolted the nation "will not affect me and my doing my job," he said. He had been through so much controversy ("it has been my lot") that "when...