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...from 1932 to '50, who led the school to three Associated Press national championships and five undisputed Big Ten titles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. The "Silver Fox" of football, shy, soft-spoken Bierman preferred reading notes aloud to his players rather than giving them pep talks, and emphasized blocking and tackling rather than passing. His advice to his teams: "Base your plays on standards most likely to defeat the champions," instead of their actual opponents...
...controls, standby controls or even comprehensive wage-price guidelines. Presidential aides promise to have an anti-inflation plan ready in a month or two. The indications are, however, that the Administration will do no more than set a highly general goal, call in labor and business leaders for pep talks and hope that they will restrain wage and price boosts...
...served notice about what should be included in the new budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey will present on March 29. The unions' price for going along with a third year of slim raises: a $4 billion expansionary packet to be allocated by the government to pep up the economy through a large income tax reduction and job-creation plans...
That change reflects a deep skepticism on Capitol Hill that the rebate plan will pep up demand enough to cut quickly into unemployment. On the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican, likens the passing out of $50 checks to everyone to "dropping money out of airplanes"; New York Democrat Otis Pike grumbles that there must be a better way to create jobs...
...peculiar standards of bodybuilding, young Louis appears to be every bit as gorgeous as Arnold. What he cannot see, and what his old man will never accept, is that Arnold has a gift that cannot be acquired no matter how hard an athlete trains, no matter how many pep talks replete with references to Michelangelo's sculpture he absorbs. It is, of course, the gift of charisma, something capable of magically compelling his opponent's collapse and the judges' favorable votes...