Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gibson said yesterday that the Richard C. Knight Insurance Company of Boston--which now handles tuition payment insurance for Harvard--will take care of the paperwork on the parent loans, and also provide the insurance...
...Knight will process the loan payments for Harvard at a "very modest cost," Gibson said, because they want the parents' insurance business. If enough parents elect to use the loan program, Knight will process the loans at "essentially no cost," Gibson said yesterday...
California casualties swoop down dead with more speed and color and frequency than any other state's: Upton Sinclair, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Goodwin Knight, William Knowland, Pierre Salinger, and of course, Richard Nixon in 1962. It was Jerry Brown's father, cheerful stumbly Pat Brown who beat Nixon for the governorship that year, only to lose to Ronald Reagan the next time around. There is no security in California politics-Pat Brown says that he "rubbed his hands in glee" at the thought of running against the "fading, aging actor." Perhaps that is why the young Brown, with...
Sixth Man. On the court, his team reflects his intensity, sometimes to a fault. Early this season Knight realized his players were so worried about making mistakes that they were no longer performing well; he offered some praise, and the Hoosiers' playing quickly improved. But discipline-lots of it-is the essence of Knight's coaching style. "I tell them," Knight says, "that wherever you start life, there will be others above you. Get used...
Some followers of the sport compare this year's Hoosier team to the greatest college squads of the past, including the 1960 Ohio State national championship team that Knight played on as a sophomore (he was the sixth man) with Teammates Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek. Indiana Forward Scott May (6 ft. 7 in.) and Center Kent Benson (6 ft. 11 in.) are both All-America; Forward Tom Abernethy (6 ft. 7 in.) and Guard Bobby Wilkerson (6 ft. 7 in.) are both outstanding on defense; and when powerful Guard Quinn Buckner (6 ft. 3 in.) runs onto...