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...efficient quarterbacks in N.F.L. history. At 36, he is at the height of his skills. Roger the Dodger, the U.S. Naval Academy scrambler who came into the pros ten years ago with a pronounced tendency to gallop away with the ball, has long since matured into a sharp-eyed passer whose forte is picking apart the secondary, not romping down the sidelines. To avoid destruction, Staubach goes to ground with a hook slide that would do a major league base runner proud: "My instincts resist it, but the coaches instilled it in me. The more experience I have, the less...
...traveling Harvard man, wandering by a little apartment on Berlin's Thierschastrasse during the early 1930s might have heard a tune to warm his heart. Inside, in the apartment of Adolf Hitler, Ernst Hanfstaengl would sit at the piano and hammer out the melody of "Harvardiana." But the passer-by might wonder at the lyrics; To honor der Fuehrer, Hanfy had changed the words a bit. Instead of the traditional repeating "Harvard" chorus, Hanfstaengl would bellow out "Sieg Heil" again and again...
...England Patriots who were a roughing-the-passer call away from besting the 1977 Super Bowl champs in the playoffs only to fizzle last season and miss the playoffs...
Some 150,000 Czechs, including Film Directors Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer and Ján Kádár, have fled to the West. In reprisal for supporting the attempted Dubček liberalization, thousands of professionals and technicians who stayed behind were forced into menial jobs. What remains of the once flourishing Czechoslovak culture is a wasteland of agitprop that French Poet Louis Aragon has called a "Biafra of the spirit...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee camps supported by the United Nations but actually governed by the P.L.O. Still, they endure. Says Palestinian Writer Raymonde Tawil: '"We are like grass. The more you cut it, the more it will grow...