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...success couldn't eclipse a growing list of irregularities and abuses. They were damaging, as Lo Schiavo realized, "the university's priceless assets, its integrity and its reputation." The recent revelation that an alum had paid star guard Quintin Dailey (since lured to the NBA by big bucks) for a summer job he never performed was only the latest in a string of disclosures of illegal alumni interference with the program and recruiting improprieties by coaches. The university, already the subject of two recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigations, was facing still further scrutiny from the governing body...
...major sports programs are available, but they won't mean anything until the will to solve the problem arises. And while there are plenty of well-intentioned people around; while NCAA officers can slap meaningless probations on naughty little schools; and while there is a rule-book so heavy Quintin Dailey couldn't dunk it--this all-important will is hibernating...
...August 21, a drama of irrationality was acted out in the Adjustment Center of San Quintin prison. The actual scenes and movements of that drama are at present known only to a small group of people. If, in fact, they are all known by anyone still living. However the body count, as always, has been widely circulated. Dead are George Jackson, central figure of the drama, three white guards--Frank DeLeon, Paul Krasnes and Jere Graham-- and two white inmates--John Lynn and Ronald Kane...
...brainy career politician who has served as Heath's Shadow Chancellor and for the past three years has been head of the Tory task force charged with drafting tax reformed Highly able, Macleod takes on the punishing task of running the economy while seriously handicapped by arthritis. LORD CHANCELLOR: Quintin Hogg, 62, who becomes Britain's chief law officer and leader of the House of Lords. A political grandstander and heir to a peerage, Hogg renounced his coronet to run for Commons in 1963, but with his new post has accepted a life peerage...
...suit against the rock 'n' rollers, Wilson was represented by none other than Quintin Hogg, who announced that "the Prime Minister has for some years been aware that various false and malicious rumors have been spread concerning his personal character and integrity. He has always considered it right to treat them with the contempt they deserved." Now, said Hogg, Wilson wanted to "make plain his determination to establish the complete falsity of these rumors...