Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the coaches couldn't agree (they even re-opened negotiations in the Franklin Field grandstand after the Heps meet), the seemingly simple top-two formula was used. What the formula resulted in was the selection of 21 Men of Harvard for the 31-man squad. It also meant that outgoing Captain Walter Johnson, who ran third in the high hurdles behind teammate Dewey Hickman, will stay behind, and New Captain Bud Wilson, who ran second in the 220, won't be able to go because he was 2 seconds behind freshman Austin O'Connor, who will get the trip...
...overstating its case. Shots of the VIPs seemed to be selected to make them look foolish. The script, though generally well-done, was sometimes flawed by heavily underlining its points, trying too hard for irony or poignancy (after a firepower demonstration: "War is not fought in front of a grandstand"). Numerous complaints about factual accuracy and deceptive editing followed from Defense Department Spokesman Daniel Z. Henkin. But the issues were relatively minor and probably beside the point; more significant was the program's overall impact. Investigative reporting is strongest when it includes the best of what it is condemning...
...become the source of some crude, easy laughs. In partial compensation there are a couple of very funny performances by Vincent Schiavelli, playing a freak who tutors the S.P.F.C. in the art of blowing grass, and Buck Henry, whose acting shows shrewd restraint and a gratifying lack of the grandstand mugging that marred his appearance in Catch...
...horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push him off the roof of the grandstand first...
...November, without naming Kissinger as the intended victim, Hoover described the plan to startled members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. He attributed it to a group called the East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives. At the time, some of Hoover's numerous critics dismissed his testimony as a grandstand play designed only to help him win funds for 1,000 extra FBI agents. Thomas Buck, 54, a writer and longtime friend of the Berrigans', accompanied Representative William Anderson, a Tennessee Democrat and former skipper of the submarine Nautilus, on a visit to Danbury shortly thereafter. "Dan said there was absolutely...