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...Walsh inherited a stout defense from his predecessor and onetime protege Dennis Green. The offense is a different story. With the exception of Glyn Milburn, an elusive back who runs like a scalded whippet, there is little team speed. After some thought, Walsh converted 250-lb. defensive end Nate Olsen, son of former N.F.L. star Merlin, into a blocking back, and sometimes uses 290-lb. tackle Jeff Buckey as if he were a tight end. "I never would have thought of that," says Stanford running-back coach Bill Ring, who played for Walsh in San Francisco and suspended a successful...
...faculty and athletic administration are pleased, the football players required some initial convincing. "Most of the members of this year's team were recruited by Denny Green," says Merlin Olsen. "They liked Denny. Bill had to do a sales job, and he has done a good one." But in the early days of the Walsh regime, the players held back, not sure what to make of a coach whose sense of humor once prompted him to disguise himself on the spur of the moment as a bellhop. He then tried to extract tips from his players as they emerged from...
Sharfstein and fellow first-years Esther J. Dechant, Andrew J. Greenspan, Yngvild K. Olsen and Michael A. Steinman set up a book drop last Thursday to encourage other first-year recipients to return their books...
Starting out in 1957 with $70,000, M.I.T. engineer Ken Olsen, 66, founded the Digital Equipment Corp., which grew into the world's second largest computer maker, a $14 billion firm. Now, under the gun for DEC's financial woes -- a huge loss is anticipated for the quarter just ended -- he is stepping down. Olsen foresaw the decline of giant mainframe computers in favor of smaller minicomputers, but he failed to anticipate the revolution in even smaller workstations...
...English major at Amherst college, Turow,studying under author Tillie Olsen, published ashort story in the Transatlantic Review...