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...N.C.A.A., with a full-time staff of four investigators-there were only two until 1972-clearly cannot police its 769 member institutions. And the competition for high school stars, particularly in football and basketball, gets more intense every year. "The go-getter gets the best man," says Tarkanian's new colleague, University of Nevada at Las Vegas Football Coach Ron Meyer. "You can't afford to leave a rock unturned." To lure their victims out and get them to sign letters of intent, many schools use inducements limited only by the imagination of their recruiters...
...full four-year term as Governor, he will have to overcome his image as a perpetual No. 2 man. At the same time, Wilson will have to provide strong leadership for a state party that has been badly damaged by Watergate, by the departure of Rocky, its chief vote getter, and by the indictment of Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea Jr. on charges of vote fraud...
...Fitzgerald, a lawyer, has served on the School Committee for two decades. He is the most vociferous advocate of "Cambridge jobs for Cambridge residents," is very conservative fiscally, and vigorously defends his right to dispense patronage. Fitzgerald in recent years has slipped from his position as the top vote-getter in the City, but his solid backing in East Cambridge should be more than sufficient to re-elect...
...disregard of the Viet Nam War, which is mentioned only in reference to the Xeroxing of the Pentagon papers. The war, after all, was a product of America's military-industrial momentum and the missionary spirit - at least its anti-Communist version - as well as the Go-Getter mystique that the author so ad mires. Boorstin may dislike "important events," but that is one that no historian can ignore. · Mayo Mahs
ORIGINALLY an idealistic go-getter who fits neatly into the commercial world, the young man becomes transformed (by a prison term), into an idealistic do-gooder. It takes nearly two hours for this first transformation to occur, but the second is much more rapid. McDowell dishes soup to derelicts, who then attack him. He becomes disillusioned. He wanders through London until he sees a man walking around Picadilly Circus wearing a sandwich board which announces open casting for a new film. He goes to the casting room, is picked out of the crowd of would-be stars by director Lindsay...