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Back in September every Harvard football fan knew there were two gaping holes to be filled if the Crimson was going to make a run at the Ivy Crown. Coach Joe Restic had to find a quarterback, along with a whole pack of defensive linemen...
...Help overweight linemen lose weight rapidly by making them exercise while wearing plastic suits. This guarantees that they will perspire profusely and exposes them to the risk of dangerous dehydration of body cells...
...some former drug addicts-handicapped but not helpless. To assist those who wanted to work, concerned local citizens established in 1969 a federally subsidized training center called Gateway Project. There the clients learn some basic skills. They assemble kits of electric rods for a utility company's field linemen; they reupholster chairs for nearby military bases; they tie together stalks of wheat for a local florist who sells dried flowers by mail. Sometimes they receive the U.S. minimum wage of $2.10 an hour, sometimes as little as 53?. Not much, admits a Gateway official, but "it beats sitting...
...enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage of some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon's Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), a giant parking apron for aged or unneeded aircraft. TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini visited MASDC to roam among its aerial mastodons and talk with their keepers...
...Randy White, a defensive end from Maryland, is likely to go first in the draft. In fact, according to TIME'S annual poll of pro scouts, several Brobdingnagian blockers and tacklers may well be picked ahead of Davis because this year's senior class is rich in linemen. If the scouts pooled their research, this is what their collective notebook would look like for an All-America team...