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Scared of Daddy. Kramer taped a diary last season, and Instant Replay is more or less the result. He shows that all was not beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even...
...Scratch One Yurt...
...site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France's May riots, which shook the Gaullist monolith and weakened the franc; the Shrivers deplaned as students were battling police by night in the Latin Quarter. As the pro-De Gaulle newspaper Paris-Presse observed, "M. Shriver started from scratch at a time when France was making a clean sweep of the past." The assassination of Robert Kennedy evoked French sympathy for his sister Eunice Shriver. Finally, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia abruptly ended De Gaulle's cultivation of diplomatic openings to the East. France is looking elsewhere...
Running Scared Modern. Building today's museums is an expensive process, and few institutions can afford to start over again from scratch. Such is the case in Des Moines, where Pei was faced with another set of problems: primarily, how to add a wing to the existing building, in this case the Des Moines Art Center built by Eliel Saarinen in 1948. Pei's solution was to build a two-story structure behind the original, U-shaped building, thus totally surrounding a shallow reflecting pool that had lain between the two wings of the U. To further unify...
Tony Franciosa is People's handsome, daring ace reporter. His editor (Gene Barry) occupies an office that is only slightly more opulent than, say, Hugh Hefner's pad. Expense-account cash is as abundant and accessible as scratch paper. The researchers are not only resolutely clever but demure, sensuous and beautiful...