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...slippery sponge. The game, which was supposed to have been a romp for the Trojans, turned into a tossup. After 30 minutes of fumbles and false starts, neither team had scored, and U.S.C. sloshed into the locker room at half time for the Trojan equivalent of a pep talk. It was hardly the stuff that movies are made of. McKay quietly told his defensive unit that "you can make it happen." He reminded Quarterback Mike Rae that he had "the right to ask officials for a dry ball." Gently, the coach called on everyone to show more aggressiveness...
...innovative ways, McKay holds to a prosaic philosophy: "Players win; plays don't." As a recruiter, he stays close to home: of the 100 U.S.C. players currently on scholarship, only five are from out of state. McKay's pitch-like his pep talks-is low-key and persuasive: a good education, a lucrative summer job, a chance to play with a proven winner and an influential assist at landing a job after graduation. If a high school star is good enough to look forward to a pro career, McKay lets it drop that 27 former U.S.C. players-more...
...Mary, 17, is a senior in high school and an occasional poet. She recently went through her own moral struggle over religion and left the Methodist Church to become a Roman Catholic. Her specialty is the pep talk. "I gave a little talk in Prince Georges County, Md., to the volunteers. I told them they were the backbone of the campaign, and that my father would win in November because of their hard work. I did it in 30 seconds...
This month Strand and Cormack interviewed a man of 22, a candidate for a police force, who admitted to robbery, selling narcotics, shoplifting, vandalism and regular use of marijuana and pep pills. Asked, "How would you rate yourself in terms of honesty?", he replied, "Above average," and commented: "I get self-satisfaction when I'm being honest...
...Hitlerian mannerisms: the walk, the deep, throaty voice, the oddly limp salute. He has studied newsreels, books and photographs, even interviewed a survivor of those last days in the bunker. At that time, says Guinness, "Hitler was almost senile; at the age of 56, he was 70. He took pep pills, and at times he would have fits. At other times he would get the giggles. I try to convey that comic side. You know, he could be extremely childlike as well as childish...