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Jumping Through Hoops. The year 1970 was also notable because, more than ever before, the talk about consumer protection turned into action. Many businessmen had long scoffed at consumerism: Campbell Soup President W.B. Murphy once called the movement "a fad, of the same order as the hula hoop." Through gutsy persistence-and with help from the ecological activists-consumer protectors have forced Government and business to change. This year businessmen had to jump through the hoops of federal regulations, frequently issued by agencies long considered too impotent...
During the middle of the scoring binge. Brown pumped in a leaper from the right corner, stole a pass seconds later, dribbled the length of the court, faked a pass, and beautifully laid the ball up and in. Fifteen seconds later, he lofted a twenty footer through the hoop to capsulize a great oneman show. Brown finished with 33 points while teammate Floyd Lewis contributed...
...rally Jean Wilkinson hit two charity tosses and 30 seconds later stole a pass dribbled the length of the court. and scored. Stan Mark hit a 20-footer and a minute later Harvard's James Brown blocked a shot and threw the ball to Wilkinson under the Dartmouth hoop. Wilkinson scored to tighten the game at 83-81 Dartmouth...
...before Saxbe got wind of it. He was enraged. "I do not know who has stirred up the people of Ohio to threaten me to vote for Haynsworth or face retaliation," he said. Declaring his independence from all outside pressures, Saxbe added: "I will not jump through a hoop for industrial fat cats or labor leaders," and in the end he voted no. So did Oregon's Mark Hatfield, who angrily complained that conservatives had threatened to oppose him in the next primary...
...missing members are Ho and Nguyen Chi Thanh, the North's second-ranking military man, who died in 1967. There were always divisions and differences, but Ho helped keep them submerged by the force of his personality and, in his declining years, by his mere presence. "He was the hoop that held the staves of the barrel in round," says Pike. "Now that hoop is gone." As a result, fissures are likely to appear more frequently. The aim will remain the same?unifying Viet Nam under Hanoi's control?but the five contenders are likely to differ on the means...