Word: hillings
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...much aggressiveness is exhausting. Today there seems a lot of evidence that Americans are tired of it. Stragglers are descending from the culture of the Ik (that east African hill tribe that, as Anthropologist Colin Turnbull found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and kicking the elderly into campfires). Remarks Judith Martin, who writes a satiric "Miss Manners" column for the Washington Post: "We're coming out of a psychologically self-oriented era. I think there's a craving for tradition, form, orderliness?and there's also a desire to be protected from everybody else...
While Watson, the baby-faced center from Brunswick, Me., has been the biggest surprise of training camp, David Burke could be the goal-scorer machine that the squad has yearned for the past few years. Burke averaged 32 tallies his last three seasons at Belmont Hill...
After three downs and a short punt for Harvard, Yale again scored on the first play it touched the ball. When Ken Hill took an option pitch and sprinted around left end for six points (2:25, Schwartz PAT good, Yale...
...President chooses to concentrate on thrift and budget cutting during the second half of his term, he may have only minimal difficulties on Capitol Hill, and it could be argued that the disappearance of both liberals and some conservatives has put the Democrats more in line with Carter's personal position. But if Carter tries to push new spending programs or controversial foreign and defense policies, he is bound to face more flak from the 96th Congress than he did from the disruptive 95th. That applies particularly to the Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, for even Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd...
Democrats also lost two hotly contested gubernatorial races. Carter stumped for wheeler-dealer Banker Jake in Tennessee, but he was upset by Republican Lamar Alexander, who walked 1,000 miles across the state to conquer his reputation for aloofness. Texas activist Attorney General John Hill, who had toppled Governor Dolph Briscoe in Democratic primary, eschewed Carters help. But he too was upset, by Oilman William Clements...