Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Typical story heard in the Union? Not so. And that is something that Jack Reardon and the rest of the people at 60 Boylston should keep in mind as they expand their efforts to make Harvard sports teams more competitive and remain in the bigtime...
...Luftwaffe's first jet warplanes. Immersing himself in accounts of the Punic Wars and biographies of Prussia's Frederick the Great, he searches for historical examples of nations that averted disaster at the very last moment and concludes: "There is no question of any doubt in my mind regarding the possibility of victory for our cause...
...Germany and Japan expand their economies is whether the U.S. can manage to curtail its wanton consumption of imported oil. As President Carter grimly noted last spring in his energy address to the nation, if present trends continue, the country's oil deficit by 1985 will total a mind-stretching $550 billion. With the world monetary system already buckling under the weight of the nation's existing oil deficit, it is not hard to envision the disruptions that will follow from a more than tenfold increase in the burden during the next seven years...
...Broncos, ah, the Broncos are the Mets of the Mountains. Theirs is a Cinderella story to catch the fancy of underdog rooters everywhere and stamp a presence on the national mind as copper bright and shiny as a new penny from the Denver Mint. It is exquisite, this first flirtation with a world championship of sport. No matter how often it may recur, it will never again be so sweet. It excuses the excesses and lifts the hearts of all who look on and recall...
...ended only after Lieut, (j.g.) Roger Staubach, U.S.N. (ret.) took away his command in the huddle. It was in Dallas under Coach Tom Landry that Morton polished his skills in running a complex offense. Much of the sophisticated strategy that marks modern football was devised in Landry's fertile mind. For beneath the ubiquitous hat a size too small, behind the stony visage, resides a genius of the game. As a player-coach in the 1950s, Landry refined the 4-3 defense, using a slide rule to work out the odds on given plays in given situations. His Cowboys play...