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...mother's maiden name, and if he was the best goalie, you'd know his favorite cereal, but he's only the best ski jumper, and since skiing gets as much recognition around here as an egg roll in an Italian restaurant, you probably don't know Dave Rand, period...
...jumpers also failed to equal their previous week's output. David Rand did "a creditable job," finishing 28th, but coach Hubbard thought he should have finished higher. Hubbard criticized the judges' determination of Rand's style points, which figured in his lower finish. "Judging is an arbitrary thing that varies from judge to judge, and we felt David got shafted on style points this time," Hubbard said...
Tall Order. It is a dizzyingly tall order indeed, but Jim Schlesinger thrives on rising to the highest occasions. A Harvard economics Ph.D., he has served as strategic studies director for the Rand Corp., assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense. He gets to the office by 7 a.m., rarely departs before 9:30 at night, and rides his staff hard, sometimes demanding an answer minutes after he has assigned a complex question. The energy-plan team works twelve-hour days and fully expects...
...hope for the skiers was the continued improvement of David Rand as a jumper. Of the 14 points accumulated in this event, 11 were won by Rand as he placed 24th. "It has been a long time since a Harvard jumper looked like a jumper in the air, but David does," Hubbard said...
...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...