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Support. Baseball fans, the weariest group of all, would like to see an end to the tiresome rhubarb immediately. Kuhn, the tall, imposing champion of the grand old game, and Miller, the mustachioed former economics expert for the United Steel Workers of America, are both savvy, seasoned negotiators who know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Silent Spring | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

>The Pay Board and the Price Commission will go out of business within 90 days. Enforcement of the program will be taken over by the Cost of Living Council (COLC), which will have to decide which wage and price boosts to ignore, which to try to pare down in negotiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE III: Some Freedom for Good Behavior | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

LINEBACKERS. Steve Brown, Oregon State, 6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs., Jim Youngblood, Tennessee Tech, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 lbs., and Rich Glover, Nebraska, 6 ft. 1 in., 234 lbs. Brown is a savvy, savage defender who all but took Stanford apart singlehanded in one game last year with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: DEFENSE | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

As usual, local personalities and local issues-particularly taxes-were pivotal. But the presidential tide had some effect, helping to seat Republicans in North Carolina and Missouri. In West Virginia, Nixon's strength helped to defeat one of the nation's most promising young Democrats. Despite an investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNORS: New Tenants in the Statehouses | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

> Author Gary Wills (Nixon Agonistes) wrote brilliantly on the metaphysics of American politics. A man of both erudition and back-room savvy, Wills favored McGovern, but in New York magazine he skewered the Democratic candidate's "motiveless benignity": "He does what he does because it is right, and it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign That Was: Some Bright Spots | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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