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...Charlie's got a lot of guts out there," says referee John Hannon of his fellow official and sometime partner Charles H. Diehl, who is acknowledged by his whistle-toting peers as the premier ECAC strongman...
Diehl and Hannon adhere to Rudolph's philosophy. Neither feels it's imperative or appropriate to stick to the multitude of rococo rules. "I have a great tendency to make up my own rules for 50 occasions," Diehl says. "The object is to win it within the four black lines they have out there. The ten kids are there to play basketball and not so two clowns can blow a whistle," he says. "As soon as they think of a way to get rid of us they will, but they haven...
What this adds up to is that refs must keep the action on a tight leash without intruding on the game's natural tempo with staccato bursts of foul calling. "I've yet to come against a coach who wants a lot of shoving, banging, or grabbing," says Hannon. "You just set your mind that you're going to keep on blowing your game, because you don't want a fight. Next day the fight's in all the papers and the first thing everyone does is look who worked the game...
...Hannon, who looks like a trim Baretta with silvery sideburns, has hoofed both the floors of sardine-can high school gyms and gleaming, 12,000-seat civic centers in his 19 years of officiating. He works as the manager of Rand McNally's shipping and receiving warehouse and lives in Cambridge...
Larger Classes. Last spring the Chicago school board prepared a balanced $1.16 billion budget for this year; it was almost immediately unbalanced, however, when Governor Dan Walker chopped off $47 million from allocations to Chicago schools. School Superintendent Joseph Hannon then proposed increasing the size of each class−now up to 34−by three pupils. With larger classes, he figured that 1,525 teachers' jobs could be eliminated at a saving of $24 million per year. That solution did not sit well with Union President Robert Healey, who had made his own proposal−that class size...