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...jobs as coach, athletic director, weekly TV football analyst and after-dinner speaker. Two years ago, he turned down an enticing $100,000 offer to coach the Los Angeles Rams. "I am one who believes that college football is a helluva challenge," he says, "perhaps even tougher than the pros." Friends believe that there was another reason for turning down the pro bid: he did not want to miss the opportunity of coaching his son, John K. McKay, a sophomore who is currently U.S.C.'s top pass receiver. Recruiting young John was "easier than usual," the elder McKay says...
Besides choosing national and local candidates, voters increasingly must deliberate the pros and cons of complex referendums and state constitutional amendments. In Washington state, for instance, voters will face an alltime record of 24 measures. The trend seems to be toward the greening of the ballot. Voters in several states will be asked to accept or reject major environment measures...
Launching his $146,000 campaign with a breakfast aboard a river excursion boat, Heinz never let up. He conducted opinion polls on dozens of subjects, blitzed the district with position papers, and wined and feted labor leaders, political pros and volunteer workers. One presumable campaign asset was his attractive wife Marie Teresa Simoes-Ferreira Heinz, 34. Born in Mozambique, she speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese, but can use very direct English when talking politics. She shocked one group by labeling it "a bunch of bigots...
Youthful adrenalin-and perhaps the sloppy drizzle in South Bend, Ind., or the mile-high altitude in Boulder, Colo.-might "account for some of the unexpected scores on the college circuit. But what of the pros, those supposedly steady, seasoned old veterans? In the National Hockey League, for instance, the venerable Montreal Canadiens are battling for the Eastern Division lead with the likes of the Detroit Red Wings (who have not won the Stanley Cup in 18 years) and a gang of young upstarts called the Buffalo Sabres. The Boston Bruins? Last year's Stanley Cup winners, weakened...
While an Ivy football team is a rarity in the national rankings. Ivy soccer teams are traditionally among the strongest in the nation, and as a conference, the Ivy League provides the toughest competition of any organized league in the country except the pros...