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They are one of the oddest groups ever assembled as a basketball team. The center's family forbade him to play in high school, so he ran away from home for his senior year and came to college with only one season of experience. The two guards played lots of basketball in high school, but none of it as guards. One forward transferred from another school that had folded its basketball team right under his sneakers. The other forward was courted by recruiters from 250 colleges, then decided to journey no farther than to the college in the valley...
...nearly lunchtime one day last week when Vice President Walter Mondale led 43 Senators into the cavernous and half-empty House chamber, sat next to House Speaker Tip O'Neill on the rostrum and began one of the oddest-but necessary-rituals of American presidential politics. Exactly two months earlier, Ronald Wilson Reagan had been elected President; in exactly two weeks, he would be inaugurated. Yet, under the cumbersome election procedures set forth in the U.S. Constitution, he was not yet officially President-elect of the United States. One by one, Mondale opened 51 sealed envelopes, which contained certificates...
There a photographer cap tured Mr. B. with the 8-ft. rara avis: certainly ballet's oddest couple since Nureyev teamed with Miss Piggy in Swine Lake...
...Oddest Couple. Tom Snyder and Rona Barrett who got along so famously as co-hosts of NBC's Tomorrow that Miss Rona finally walked out in a huff...
...face of luxury (a dizzy little thing) seems to pop up at the oddest times...