Word: helm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McLaughlin doesn't intend simply to follow in Phelps's footsteps now that he's at the helm himself. "I admire Digger, but I'm going to be myself," he says...
Chuck Daly vacated the coaching helm of Penn to join Billy Cunningham and the Philadelphia 76ers and has been succeeded by Bob Weihauer, who will be assisted by former Quaker standout Ron Haigler. Penn was second in the Ivies last year going 18-8 overall. The greatest boon Weihauer will receive is 6-ft., 6-in. senior Kevin McDonald, the premiere player of the Ivies who averaged 21.2 a game last year...
...soccer season, disappointing although not in any fashion a disappointment, proved a number of things. Primarily, it proved that Coach George Ford may, at last, feel completely comfortable at the helm. The problems that have beset that man in the past seasons are too numerous to delineate. But the period of adjustment has apparently ended, and it should not be very long before Harvard enjoys the national rankings it held in the early '70s. They almost got there this year...
Austin-Healys and buxom blonde starlets do not impress John le Carre. The veteran British spy novelist writes fiction, not fantasy; the fast cars and bikini-clad counterspies that dominate the pleasantly foolish world of James Bond and Matt Helm have no-place in his books. To le Carre, the cloak-and-dagger game is really a business, and the men and women who work at it are hardly likely to decorate cinema marquees...
Bell and the Criminal Division of Justice settled for a compromise, hoping to provoke a storm that would blow over with the passing of a few weeks. They persuaded Helms to enter a plea of no contest to significantly reduced charges, thereby officially recording Helm's guilt without risking the disclosure of information in an open courtroom that could damage the country's national security interests. Or so the argument goes...