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...given Adams a number of gifts, including hotel accommodations in Boston and a vicuna coat, calls began to rise, even in the Republican Party's own ranks, for Adams' resignation. At first Eisenhower stoutly defended his aide. But it was a congressional election year, and party pros were convinced that the Adams affair was damaging their chances. Vice President Nixon, assigned to weigh party sentiment, found that virtually all Republican candidates wanted Adams out. That jibed with Nixon's own view then, though in the Frost interview he never suggested that he privately sought Adams' resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Inoperative Recollection | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...affair. Spring practice has taken the place of fall preseason. All personnel and strategy decisions are made long before the team reports in August. That all-out session at USC has become necessary so that the team can be set and ready before the season even begins. Like the pros, college football has become a nine-months-of-the-year affair...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: College Football: The Wrongs Of Spring | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

...galaxy of young Spanish pros and amateurs who are dominating the continental golfing scene. The entire Iberian penninsula is experiencing a golf boom. In 1954 there were only 14 golf clubs in all of Spain. By 1970 there were 35 with a dozen in the works last year, including a 36-hole layout in Las Palmas...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Ole, Captain Ajax | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

Lily Tomlin, at age 37, the woman with the kaleidoscopic face, is just about that clever herself. She becomes the embodiment of Edith Ann, Lupe, Rick, Tess and a dozen or so others so quickly and flawlessly that she fools even the pros. "I don't think Tomlin really acts," says Robert Benton, who directed her in the year's sleeper film hit, The Late Show. "Her imagination is so vast that she just assumes the personality of the character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...what to attend Got-To-Win-The-Championship U. Of course the athletes deserve all they can get for they officially get so very little in return for their tireless efforts, but where does it leave them if they don't learn anything and they don't make the pros. But we all know it's rotten and there's nothing we can do to change it, right? The championship tourney will be great and we'll have the tube on and a beer in hand and go Marquette...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: First Adam, Then Eve | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

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