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Blayne Heckel and Don Berg are a potent one-two punch in the pole vault. Both have flown over 15 feet in the past. The throws will be in the capable hands of strongmen Steve Niemi, Dan Jiggetts, Chris Queen, and Gilbang...
...stretching to do before she and her show can reach its full potential. Her comic range is still nothing for Lily Tomlin to worry about. The monologues are often monosyllabic, the sketches as thin as her own profile. If there is exuberance in her singing-dancing numbers with such potent guest stars as Raquel Welch and Bette Midler, there is also a feeling that she will not entirely prove herself until she dares front a show that lacks such heavy supporting artillery. She also seems to need the security of incredibly lavish productions. Each program costs...
Roth, the only first-team repeater from last year, received 55 votes. Thomas, who along with Roth led the potent Crimson offensive attack, was also named to the first-team forward line...
Andelin is not the only woman preaching a potent antifeminist message rooted in conservative Christian teachings. Her most popular rival is Marabel Morgan, 37, of Miami, a housewife and mother of two. Morgan's book, The Total Woman, released quietly in late 1973 by Fleming H. Revell, an obscure New Jersey publisher, sold 370,000 copies at $5.95 to become the nation's top non-fiction bestseller in 1974. (It was missing from most bestseller lists because it was sold mainly in small-town shops and bookstores unpolled by the list makers...
Throughout his controversial career, Elijah Muhammad was the nation's most potent preacher of black separatism. Yet when he died last week at 77, he was mourned as a statesman. Proclaimed Chicago's mayor Richard J. Daley: "Under his leadership, the Nation of Islam has been a consistent contributor to the social well-being of our city for more than 40 years." A New York Times editorial noted his movement's success "in rehabilitating and inspiring thousands of once defeated and despairing men and women...