Word: marylander
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...easier to say what Bryant has done. At Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and-for the past 23 years-Alabama, he has won more football games than any other college coach. Numbers are simple. To catch Babe Ruth, all Henry Aaron had to do was hit 35 homers a year for more than 20 years. To catch Amos Alonzo Stagg, all Bear Bryant had to do was win ten games a year for more than 30 years...
...Maryland, however, a ten-year battle has produced nothing but deadlock. Every time environmentalists offer a bottle bill, the opponents counter with a rival program. The latest is called the Beverage Industry Recycling Program-or BIRP-an educational plan to stimulate "voluntary" public cooperation. Voters in Ohio rejected a bottle bill in 1979 by an overwhelming 70% to 30%. Earlier this year, in the New York State legislature, a similar bill was nibbled to death by bottling company and labor lobbyists before it even got to the floor for a vote...
...year away for the freshmen, but head coach Frank McLaughlin is more than a little tickled by the results of his backcourt talent search. Looking for a replacement for sharpshooter Tom Mannix, McLaughlin grabbed Ferry--the number-four all-time scorer from legendary DeMatha High in Maryland--and Standley--an all-state standout from Marion, Ohio...
Such Republican criticism of Stockman will, of course, hurt him more than Democratic sniping. "He has substantially impaired his usefulness," contended Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont. "To have him as his chief spokesman sure isn't going to help the President." Agreed Maryland's Republican Senator Charles Mathias: "I think this is terribly damaging to the President. Stockman was such a central figure...
George J. Callcott, 52, professor of history at the University of Maryland, on why the personal papers of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, donated in 1974, have not been catalogued: "A majority of it is historic junk...