Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth, giving was relatively simple. It meant giving up, a giving away of one's self or one's worldly goods in imitation of Christ. The matter grew more complex under the Protestant ethic, when gifts were bestowed as a reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents in one hand and birch rods in the other. But the art of giving grows most difficult in this permanent holiday age of affluence, when, in the words of Poet Howard Nemerov, Santa Claus himself is an "overstuffed confidence...
...weight," says one scout, but in the case of Farr and Jones, there is nothing to sacrifice-they both run the 100 in under 10 sec., have "the strength to break tackles" and "an eye for the goal line." The pros are also high on Notre Dame's Nick Eddy: "He'd be on our list," says one, "except for the fact that he can't be drafted." The reason: since he missed a semester because of illness, Eddy was eligible for the draft last year, when he was still a junior, and was snapped...
...NICK D. KAVOUKAS...
Notre Dame played almost all of the game without its great passing quarterback, Hanratty, who went off the field with a shoulder separation midway in the first quarter, and the whole game without its best runner, Nick Eddy, who had a sore shoulder. The Spartan defense took care of the rest. It triple-teamed Irish End Seymour so effectively that he did not catch a pass; in all, Notre Dame gained a grand total of only 219 yds. Thirty-four of those yards came on a touchdown pass from Coley O'Brien, Hanratty's replacement, to Halfback...
...York Political Correspondent Nick Thimmesch had been following the Rockefeller road since the gubernatorial campaign of 1962. On election night, he was one of three newsmen admitted to the Rockefeller campaign inner sanctum-room 945 of the New York Hilton. Michigan Governor George Romney has been one of Detroit Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan's assignments for more than two years. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding had been on the track of Oregon's Mark Hatfield ever since moving from our Paris office last January. Gooding had come away from his first interview with a deep impression...