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Dropping back shorter and throwing quicker this year, unsinkable Quarterback Jim Plunkett has made Marcus Allen the handiest pass catcher among running backs and Todd Christensen the most prolific receiver of all others in the league. Christensen's 92 receptions are the record for a tight end. A failed Dallas Cowboy runner, who stubbornly still wears a backfield number, 46, Christensen is given to writing and quoting poetry. Says Plunkett, 36: "It's fun to play with the Raiders because everyone is encouraged to be himself...
Exactly as reported in the Boston Globe Feb. 19, Walker struck and signed an odd pact with the New Jersey Generals, the U.S.F.L. franchise handiest to Madison Avenue. The deal carried an oral escape clause he exercised the next morning, the same day he told a press assembly, "I didn't sign anything...
...they prepare for the Super Bowl or any other game, the coaches' handiest cliché is that they don't worry about the things they can't control. It's not true...
...autobiography, Laurence Olivier remarks that bitchiness can be a "journalist's handiest tool." Perhaps Lord Olivier was thinking mostly of Britain, where the gift for malice, and the appetite for it, is higher than here. An English playwright, Arnold Wesker, once wrote The Journalists, a drama about "the poisonous human need to cut better men down to our size . . . The lilliputian journalist be the interviewee's fame, influence or achievement." That too may be more true in Britain...
While Harvard alumni reunions are traditionally marked by outings, handiest and fundraising soirees, this year annual whirl of events has also focused on some of the moral and political questions of our day. On Monday, as part of the official commencement week schedule. Harvard Alumni officials presented symposium to educate graduates on the perils of nuclear war which more than 400 people attended...