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Campaign aide Brian McDevitt told reporters at the opening that, despite trailing President Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) in the polls, Brown is optimistic. Brown's low-key operation will gear up in the next few weeks, he said, adding, "Now is the time for coming out and mobilizing the support we believe is here...
...delegate per house is elected to CHUL. The elections are low-key: no posters, no campaigning, no speeches. Students interested in running--there are usually one to three--write a one-paragraph statement about why they want to serve on the committee. Elections to the CRR and CUE work similarly...
...Little Orphan Billy Martin, back again as manager of baseball's world champions after a year's banishment. This time last season Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner decided that Martin was creating too much dissension among his big-name, high-salary players and replaced him with low-key Bob Lemon, who produced another championship. But last week, with the Yankees 7½ games back of the Baltimore Orioles, Steinbrenner soured on Lemon. Back came brash Billy with all his old ego and temperament intact. Yankee fans, who like Lemon but always loved Billy the more, greeted the prodigal with...
...college-inspired novels this side of Fitzgerald's Paradise have been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate. Its off-centerpiece, Billy Williams, literally starts off on the wrong foot by stepping on the college master's dachshund at a cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese...
...fund drive efforts, however, will be "low-key." "Last year, they had 60 members who spent all four days going after money. There will be nothing like that this year," Abrams said. "This reunion is an occasion for all of us to relax and enjoy ourselves with a minimum of pressure...