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...high-pressure, big money environment of college football has produced a long series of recruiting violations, an atrociously low percentage of athletes who actually receive degrees, a pattern of falsified grade transcripts to allow athletes to maintain eligibility, and a host of other problems. So what was the NCAA's response last week to this growing list of disgraces? The group turned to its Ivy League members--which come closest to joining education and sport in a mutually beneficial alliance--and threw them out of the game's top division...
Interest rates continued their three-month-long slide last week, as many American banks dropped the bench mark prime inter est rate to 15½%. In September the rate stood at 20%. The moneymen were again following the pattern set by Southwest Bank of St. Louis, which ranks only 1,270th in size among the some 14,000 banks in the U.S. but is a leader in setting the prune. Two weeks ago, Southwest was the first bank to lower its rate to the new level...
Artistic rebellions usually end in new orthodoxies every bit as rigid and dogmatic as the old. Harry Jackson, 57, did not revise this pattern, he reversed it. In 1957, at the beginning of a promising career in abstract expressionism, Jack son dropped his dribble stick and picked up the brush and palette of a traditional realist. He left New York City for long visits to Wyoming, where he had once worked as a cowhand...
When the teams returned to the court, the pattern showed no signs of reversing itself, as the Maroons quickly added 11 points to their lead. Eight minutes into the period, Kleinfelder sent freshman Val Jordan and sophomore Jenny Rudolph in to join starters Pat Horne, Wendy Joseph, and Marget Long, and the rejuvenated five began to assert itself...
...neatly in an ABC 30-second profile. Officials in crested blazers drooled at the prospect of Bogart Jackson trading wisecracks with Dave Marr or Byron Nelson or the writers. They pictured Bogart Jackson in a pink Izod t-shirt, navy polyester slacks, Spalding shoes, crunching the all-new dimple pattern off of Dunlop Max-Flis. "Bogart Jackson has angled his ball to within four feet of the cup, a remarkable effort here at Augusta," British CBS announcer Ben Wright would intone softly. "The Masters belongs...