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...times last season was only the beginning of the front four's contribution to the Steelers. They set the tone for the entire defense and it was the defense that carried the 42-year-old Pittsburgh franchise to its first Super Bowl championship last year. The creation of patient, low-key Head Coach Chuck Noll, who drafted all but two of the starting defensive players, and Steelers Founder and Owner Art Rooney, who gave Noll the backing he needed to build slowly over the past six years, the defense is the cornerstone of Pittsburgh's leadership in the N.F.L. When...
Unperturbed, Sadat delivered a characteristically low-key speech to the General Assembly that appealed for help in reconvening the Geneva talks on an overall Middle East settlement. He attempted to placate Arabs critical of the Sinai accords by calling for Palestine Liberation Organization participation in the talks and urging the U.S. to initiate a dialogue with the Palestinians. At the same time he urged Syria to seek a disengagement agreement with Israel. Most U.N. delegations politely applauded Sadat. The Syrians and the Israelis did not applaud...
GREAT BRITAIN. In a nation where the Prime Minister is open to public exposure whenever he debates in Parliament, the attitude toward security remains low-key, if cautious. The Special Branch of Scotland Yard provides one plainclothes security officer for the Prime Minister and each member of the royal family. Similar protection is available to any Cabinet officer and to the leader of the opposition party. Travel routes within the country are never announced in advance, except for walkabouts during campaigns or royal processions, and in those instances unarmed local police officers augment a small, discreetly armed security force...
...that he was an active, eager candidate to retain his office. But Gerald Ford wanted to play it that way, conveying the image of just plain Jerry, hard at work and determined. Seated at his desk in the Oval Office, backed by four campaign aides, he read a brief, low-key statement in a firm, confident voice. Said the President: "I intend to conduct an open and aboveboard campaign"-a pledge that would have seemed superfluous in any but a post-Nixon period...
...public relations firm of J. Walter Thompson to advise it. The embassy has also retained William Ruckelshaus, the former Deputy Attorney General who was a victim of Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, to argue against military aid to Turkey on Capitol Hill. Legislators describe his efforts as "low-key but effective." The embassy's most visible publicist has been John Nicolopoulos, a former political science professor who fled the Greek junta and has acquired influence among Washington newsmen and congressional staffers...