Word: locker-room
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...strike at a meeting of the Business Council, the elite group of 200 business leaders headed by G.E. Chairman Fred Borch. Briefing newsmen, Shultz predicted much labor unrest ahead, but declared that the Administration would not often intervene. Then he turned to Borch and said with a sort of locker-room bonhomie: "So, Fred, don't you come around." With a bit more edge in his voice, Borch shot back: "And don't you come around." Comments such as these provoked one of the strike leaders to charge that Shultz was partisan to G.E. and demand that...
...special will differ from most sports shows in that it is a critique, not a glorification, of football. The show has no interviews as such. It will concentrate instead on famous plays that have shaped football history and casual locker-room scenes...
...this, Director Tom Gries inserts dozens of pauses between the clichés, some seemingly as long as a half time ceremony. Charlton Heston brings his usual Pleistocene presence to the part of Cat, presumably granted him because his rain-barrel chest wouldn't look scrawny in the locker-room scenes, but everyone else stands around looking sort of embarrassed. The last tackle comes as a welcome relief, as Heston and the film fall one final time to the gridiron with a resounding thud...
...have learned a lot," said Minnesota Democratic Senator Walter Mondale. "We learned how to work together, and they are going to hear more from us in the future." It sounded like postgame, locker-room bitterness. But the stakes were high-the $20 billion defense-appropriations bill for weapons and research-and last week, Mondale and other Defense Department critics were losers as the bill swept the Senate by an 81-5 vote...
...That locker-room homily on football was delivered not by Knute Rockne or Alonzo Stagg, but by the next President of the U.S. Perhaps because it applies equally well to his political career, Richard Nixon has never lost interest in the sport that inspired it. He often garnishes his speeches with stories of his football days at Whittier College-he was not very good-and turns to the newspaper sports page right after skimming the political columnists. After one campaign appearance in Miami, he relaxed by tossing a football around on the airport apron at 3 a.m. Last week-even...