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Such shaky origins apparently do not bother true believers. Actress Julie Newmar is convinced. Jackie Gleason checks his charts before an important engagement, and Gil Brandt, vice president of the Super Bowl-champion Dallas Cowboys, is also convinced that biorhythm "has a lot of validity." There are a growing number of adherents on N.F.L. teams. Minnesota Vikings Player Jim Marshall was intrigued when someone pointed out that his classic wrong-way run for a touchdown in 1964 came on a triple...
...insists: "Certainly Ali's the fastest heavyweight champion of all time. Joe Louis had fast hands, but not fast feet. Rocky was a bit of a plodder." Joe Frazier, who ought to know, credits Ali's savvy: "He knows how to psych most of his men out." Veteran Manager Gil Clancy pays homage to the post-exile Ali's distinguishing characteristic: "He can absorb a punch better than any fighter who ever lived." Still, there is a tendency among the experts to say the best fighter probably was Louis, the man with the fast and powerful hands...
...Judiciary Committee last week to begin confirmation hearings on his appointment as the new U.S. Deputy Attorney General. The committee said last week the Marston case would certainly be a primary area of questioning, but we should seriously wonder whether they will bear in mind the statement made by Gil Scutti upon his January 21 resignation as the chief of Marston's criminal division immediately following Marston's removal. Evoking the "stay away" advice given by Nixon White House aide Gordon Strachan before the Senate Watergate Committee five years ago, Scutti said, "I'm forced to leave...
Finch's opponent in 1975, Gil Carmichael apotheosized the values of this middle-class. Carmichael, who served as a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics the year after his defeat at the hands of Finch, was urban while Finch was bucolic, articulate while Finch was incoherent, organized while Finch was chaotic, and cerebral while Finch relied on good ol' home-grown common sense. Carmichael--a rich Volkswagen dealer--was the sweetheart of the more intelligent and wealthier 'Mississippians. In the election he carried Jackson, some coastal districts and the Mississippi Delta where plantations still abound and wealth and income...
Hometown favorite Gil Perrault slid a shot off opposing center Phil Esposito's stick into the net to give the Prince of Wales conference a 3-2 sudden-death victory over the Campbell conference in the 31st annual National Hockey League All-Star game in Buffalo last night...