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WHEN JOE RESTIC arrived in Cambridge last fall, fresh from the wide-open Canadian pros with a fat playbook full of tricks under his arm, many Harvard fans, thoroughly bored by a decade of John Yovicsin's dive, sweep, incompletion offense, breathed a sigh of relief. But their relief soon became boredom again in the opening game, as Restic's man-in-motion, multiple set offense produced a paltry ten points against a Holy Cross team that had not won a game in almost three years (a performance that looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: The Restic Style: Paradise Lost After Priming on Classic Comics | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

...this, the prize for hypocrisy in the Gulf affair probably goes to the Harvard administration. A memo by presidential assistant Steve Father published in the March 10 Gazette and supposedly representing his advice to Bok on the subject, was obviously prepared for public consumption. Its consideration of the pros and cons of divestiture, while highly informative concerning Gulf and Angola, bore no relationship to what were obviously the administration's main concerns--not just such cynical but nevertheless real questions as "Will this get those students off our backs?" but even others, more appropriate for official published reports, such...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Profit Without Honor | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...veterans against the neophytes. The old pros against the upstarts. The tried and true against the young and tough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Vets Face Young Turks Today; Messing to Tend Goal for Olympics | 5/26/1972 | See Source »

...spring trip, the B.U. team ran into four straight pitchers who had been drafted by the pros in the first round and all had little trouble with the Terriers. B.U. has also lost to Fairfield, 3-2, a team which Harvard has beaten twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Face Terriers Today With MIT, Dartmouth Games Ahead | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

...single reason, or incident, can be cited to explain Muskie's decline. There was, in fact, a whole series of mistakes made by political pros, journalists, Muskie strategists and Muskie himself. In the first place, he probably should never have been rated so far ahead. That status was based largely on the fact that national surveys showed him to be the Democrat with the best chance to defeat Nixon-but those polls do not translate into strength in state primaries (see box, page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Happened to Muskie? | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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