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...Durgin gets an offer for a pro tryout, he'll give it a shot. He thinks the Harvard football program has prepared him well. "We've been taught to play a game of controlled aggression--you have to button down your helmet and hit, but you've got to be thinking...
Pugnacious. The word fits liberal Democrat John Culver as well as his football helmet did when he was a fullback at Harvard. Now, after ten years as a Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...
Cuccia and the Multiflex were obviously made for each other. The coach had Cuccia taking snaps in the shotgun, then throwing or running. Grizzled press box veterans watched for a while, then began to realize that Cuccia was running single wing--a remnant of football's leather helmet days resurrected for the Multiflex...
...where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...
...offensive line of the Columbus High football team stood shoulder to shoulder with Maffei in the narrow, winding street. Their smooth, helmet-like coifs bobbed several inches above the crowd as they jousted playfully. The young bucks and the slightly older working men and women who stood behind them cared little about Carter's dedication to Social Security or Medicare. In fact, when the presidential entourage emerged into the mid-day sunshine it was Ted Kennedy and not the candidate who received the warmest reception. The most favorite of all New England sons provoked a particularly loud round of cheering...