Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Lee, varsity wrestling coach, notes, "The biggest barrier is often the feeling that they can't make it. The reputation is too scary." It is often necessary to talk Harvard down, to humanize the place by making it clear that people other than Roosevelts and Cabots go to the school, to make the apprehensive athlete realize he can survive in Cambridge. Yet the Harvard myth, the Crimson tradition that is supposed to "sell itself," runs counter to such a self-effacing approach...
...accept a student-athlete still rests with the admissions committee. Because a coach cannot guarantee admission to a good athletic prospect, he or she runs the risk of wasting effort to promote an unsuccessful candidate. "You don't get a kid interested who's not in the ballpark," Lee says, but even then there is a danger of misjudging badly. Lee recounts the story of a how he courted one wrestler--who has since gone on to post a phenomenal NCAA tournament record--with hopes of Harvard admission, only to see the committee reject him. The rejection soured the wrestler...
...veteran of 22 years in the mines, against an old friend and an old foe. The former ally is Patrick, 46, a fiery reformer who helped Miller oust the corrupt regime of W.A. ("Tony") Boyle five years ago; Patrick is now U.M.W. secretary-treasurer. The longtime Miller opponent is Lee Roy Patterson, 42, a onetime crony of Boyle's and a member of the union's executive board. Miller appears to be the front runner; Patterson, benefiting from a split in the reform vote between Miller and Patrick, seems to be second and gaining...
...Farrah Fawcett-Majors, fame and fortune at 30 means that she and Husband Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man) can hardly poke their heads out of their big Bel Air home without being mobbed. Says the Texas-born prima inter pares star of TV's Charlie's Angels: "The spontaneity is gone. We used to be able to fly to Las Vegas for a night. Now if we want to go away we have to rent a place on a desert island as Mr. and Mrs. Doe." Los Angeles Author Nicholas Meyer, also 30 and a new millionaire...
...pistol at blacks who tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears, a black ex-convict. Fears worked as a busboy and dishwasher for Maddox until his boss's restaurant went under. The duo's first big-time booking will be an appearance on NBC's series of Laugh-In specials, scheduled to begin late this year. Says Maddox...