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...countless ways from countless campus press mills, has the message been put across to the 1,300 sportswriters and broadcasters who will vote later this month to determine the winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy, a 50-lb. hunk of bronze that is awarded annually to the "outstanding college football player of the United States." Whoever wins it should award a trophy to his campaign manager, otherwise known as sports information director. Indeed, in this election year, the hustle for the Heisman has been so hard a sell that it has been difficult to tell the players from the politicians...
...linked through marriage to the powerful Simard shipbuilding family, promised to cut provincial spending and provide 100,000 new jobs during his first year in office. His prescription calls for pumping what provincial money he has into programs that will create jobs and for getting a bigger hunk of federal funds for public works projects...
...ordinary detective is a hunk of merchandise, like a gun and bullets. Anybody with enough small change can buy him. Philip Marlowe is the exception. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," wrote Chandler, "who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Trading on the name, the Marlowe makers have banished fear, but they forgot to remove the tarnish...
...jock, football players and hockey players, soccer men and wrestlers all seem to blur into one, large hunk. But cross country runners always have seemed different-somehow not your basic jocks...
Design School student Nancy Slavin said, "It is less but it's still quite a hunk. We're glad he did this work. There's very little concrete data on housing-that's one of the big problems...