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...arrival of the W.F.L., just eleven months after it was first proposed, can be credited to Gary Davidson, a handsome lawyer who has made a career out of playing David to the Goliath establishments of sport. Before organizing the W.F.L., he put together the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association. By creating 34 new teams in three major sports in the past eight years, Davidson has become an acknowledged master builder in a field that includes such lusty franchise spawners as Football and Tennis Tycoon Lamar Hunt...
...scenario reads like an excerpt from the "Profiles of Courage" that John F. Kennedy '40 once collected, complete with the David-and-Goliath theme that sentimentalist historians adore. But Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, the special prosecutor who defied the most powerful man in the Western world, and hero to millions of Watergate-watchers, was an unlikely candidate for gallantry...
...Consumer Federation of America's "energy-policy task force," representing the interests of 22 consumer-oriented groups. His total budget may reach $85,000 a year-a pittance beside the American Petroleum Institute's $16.7 million for 1974. "If it's a David v. Goliath situation," he says, "spell David with a small...
...pride of the Bruins is 6 ft. 11 in. All-Everything center Bill Walton. Walton, the only red-headed Goliath around, has turned in some of the most impressive games played by a collegiate star including last year's NCAA finals when he dropped in 21 of 22 shots from all over the field and a couple from what appeared to be several rows up in the stands to lead the UCLA'ns to the championship over upstart Memphis State. But this year, in what is supposed-to-be-wonder-year of the Bruins, Walton and All-American teammate Keith...
...proposals. It turned out differently in Washington, and only Mr. Jobert represented the Community's former decisions. Can you call nationalistic an attitude respecting the agreements held among nine nations? France does not want the Community to become a U.S. satellite. It is David defending his people against Goliath...