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...fact: Richard Nixon has become a lame duck. He has passed the equinox...
...During his 58-day battalion command, Herbert earned a Silver and three Bronze Stars and was about to be recommended for a Distinguished Service Cross. Then he was abruptly relieved of his job. The explanation Barnes offered Wallace-that Herbert lied about enemy casualties and was a "killer"-seemed lame. Not surprisingly, 60 Minutes endorsed Herbert's request that the Army make public all records of hearings and investigations related to his case...
...excellence without dehumanizing the athlete" seems to be succeeding. Attendance at exercise classes has more than doubled, and over 30 students are now majoring in phys. ed., a department that was all but ignored in recent years. This season the football team won two of nine games with a lame-duck coach, but Scott claims little credit for the improvement. He agrees with President Fuller that it is too early in his four-year contract to pass judgment on Oberlin's athletic experiment. "The real verdict won't be in for a few years," Fuller says...
...Office of Management and Budget, fighting to hold down federal spending, has proposed an 18-month moratorium on all Government commitments to finance new public-housing projects. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney is righting for some public-housing money, but his clout is reduced by his lame-duck status...
...Little Iron Man"-as the cocky, compact (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) French Canadian is known-will race any combination of two wheels and four legs. One of Filion's alltime favorites was a horse called Rabbit, an equine outpatient that, as one railbird recalls, had "four lame legs and so many bone chips he sounded like a crap game." Filion, who won 17 races with him in '68, says fondly: "He was the gamest horse I ever...