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...financial stakes are highest for the 32 sponsors of the Games, who each paid the Los Angeles committee from $4 million to $13 million in cash, goods and services. Though such notable firms as Johnson & Johnson scorned that particular deal as too costly, the committee easily filled its roster. Sometimes it did so by playing on corporate rivalry. Says Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles committee: "The way you approach McDonald's, for instance, is to go in there and drop the name Burger King or Wendy...
...thing the club has abandoned for the immediate future is its hopes for varsity status: "There are a lot of things that we'd have to give up that make rugby unique." Weeks says, citing infrequent practices, an open roster for all and alcohol on the sidelines during games...
Beyond this tier of vice-presidential possibilities, the roster of women prospects thins rapidly. Even women with national experience have nagging liabilities. Four-term Maryland Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, 48, for example, is too abrasive and pro-union (she has a 100% AFL-CIO rating) to help a national ticket. Others, like Connecticut's freshman Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly, 48, simply lack seasoning. "Potential vice-presidential candidates have got to have experience," says Betty Smith, Democratic state chairman for Northern California. "There are very few women who are in that position right...
...NOTEBOOK: The batwomen face UMass is a doubleheader Saturday at Amberst. The Minutemen roster includes two All-Americans and the team is probably the toughest one the batwomen will face this season. First Game Crimson 4, Chieftains 3 Harvard ab r h bi Boyer of 4 0 1 1 Andresa 2b 4 0 0 0 Barresi c 4 1 2 0 Rowning 3b 3 1 2 0 Brown dh 3 1 1 0 Wilson rf 3 0 2 2 Newell pr 0 0 0 0 Cunnghm 1b 3 0 0 0 MacKinnon 1f 3 1 1 0 Sacksrolf...
Part of the reason for this is inexperience. Weller and second baseman Gaylord Lyman are the only seniors on the roster, while half a dozen freshmen could make the team Like his predecessor. Weller doesn't do a lot of talking "If some of the players have problems. I'd hope they'd come to me," he says...