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...back when--call it 1975--Radcliffe prospectives needed not concern themselves with that section of their applications under the call word "Athletics." Play the violin, ace those SATs, live in Idaho--but be a jock...what are you, sexist...
...sandy-haired son of a farmer from Boise, Idaho, Agee was a skinny but skilled jock in high school. He started at Stanford but married after his freshman year and transferred to Boise Junior College, then to the University of Idaho and finally to Harvard Business School...
...order after years of abuse under Boyle. Patterson, 43, is a graying, stocky union in-fighter from Madisonville, Ky., who campaigned for Boyle in the last election and continues to praise his administration. Boyle, who has been serving out a life sentence for conspiring to murder U.M.W. Reformer Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, last week was granted a new trial by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the grounds that crucial defense testimony was not allowed during his 1974 trial. No one knows yet just how this development will affect the election, but it can hardly hurt the Boyle partisans, who, along with...
SPORT. There is no connection-except that sport is a form of warfare-but 1977 will also be the year of the cinema jock. Rocky will be followed by a flurry of boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script...
...right." As a Philadelphia D.A., he won 69 convictions in 70 murder cases. He also sent United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle to the slammer for plotting the brutal murder of his challenger for the union leadership, Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski and Yablonski's wife and daughter...