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...think Harvard students want a demanding athletic program and a lot of good teaching. They don't want to goof off and they are willing to do hard work and can win consistently if they are properly motivated...
...talks in Paris was a rumor in the State Department that Kissinger erred last October when he hurried home to Washington with a draft agreement that turned out to be less than airtight. There is no evidence that this is so, and the whispers of a Kissinger goof could be put down to State jealousy, but they would surely increase if the President's negotiator were to fail to nail down a settlement on the second go-round. In short, some furious bargaining remained to be done before either Kissinger or Le Duc Tho could look ahead to those...
...somewhat weary Walter Cronkite. Despite this, when the early Nielsens came in, they showed CBS ahead by 15% in New York City's viewer vote. In later tallies, NBC came out ahead. "I dunno," said a CBS executive, shaking his head. "Maybe they tuned in to see us goof up. Or maybe they just got tired of all those remotes on the other networks." Actually, there were no real goof-ups; supervisory personnel did all the work with scarcely a moment of dead...
...Cronkite imbroglio had scarcely subsided when the gaffe and goof baton went to John Chancellor. Observing the Youth for Nixon claque, he commented sourly, "At Democratic Conventions we've seen Mayor Daley of Chicago pack the halls with members of the Sixth Ward sewer workers. What we've seen tonight seems to be the Republican equivalent." The G.O.P. delegates did not fancy themselves as stand-ins for Art Carney, and NBC's switchboard was flooded with complaints. Chancellor later harrumphed an apology, and the next day a huge poster was displayed on the floor: ENTHUSIASTIC SEWER WORKERS...
...they had ponderous problems. Hoping both to solve those problems and raise more and more cash, Ling sliced up the major parts of his empire, creating smaller companies. (When he cut Wilson & Co. into separate meatpacking, sporting-goods and drug firms, brokers dubbed them "meat ball, golf ball and goof ball.") The plan was to sell new shares in these companies to the public, as well as to give plenty of options to their officers as an incentive. But, like most conglomerators, Ling was so busy looking for the next bargain that he had little time to check...