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When the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 began to hammer out the language of Article II, Section I, Clause 6 (specifying conditions under which the Vice President assumes the presidency), Delaware's Delegate John Dickinson raised a troublous question. Asked Dickinson: What is meant by the term disability, and who is to be the judge of it? Dickinson got no answer. Last week, 170 years and 33 Presidents later, there was still no answer...
...frame, Pitt Alumnus Schmidt is a quiet, serious competitor. He works hard at keeping in shape (a habit that makes him something of an exception among the rowdy Lions), and in five years of pro ball has shown a remarkable talent for holding onto his looks. "Ever since the Philadelphia Eagles broke my nose in 1953," says Joe modestly, "I've worn a face guard. Not that I've got any beauty to lose-but why be a hero...
...PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2--National Football League owners today unanimously granted all the demands of the Players Association--exhibition pay, minimum salary, injury protection clause, and recognition...
Yovicsin's coaching career goes back to the war years when he taught in a Southern New Jersey high school, coached football there and, practicing nights, played professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles. As Yovicsin puts it, however, "My future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...
Three Piano Musketeers. Manhattan-born Pianist Graffman, 29, played for the first time with a full symphony orchestra (the Indianapolis) when he was still a knickerbockered scholarship student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. A local critic decided that his "assurance, ease and poise" were "a bit terrifying." The son of Russian-born parents, he followed a path after Indianapolis that is familiar to many another promising young U.S. soloist: special award in the Rachmaninoff Fund's nationwide piano contest, guest appearances with half a dozen U.S. symphonies, an RCA Victor recording contract. In the in-between...