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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hang time -- it's the key to the punting game, and both Restic and MacMurray know there's too little of it right now. "We lack a punting coach, per se," MacMurray says, explaining he works out alone, trying to improve his drop, heighten his extension and lengthen his hang time. But such an improvement takes time and concentration; and for MacMurray, that means solitude...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Trying to Get the Hang (Time) of It | 10/13/1978 | See Source »

...just hope no one makes the decision to come to Harvard for athletics per se. I hope athletics doesn't get in the way of studying," he says. "I worry about kids who comes here with inflated opinions of themselves as athletes. They don't make it on the fields, and they often end up as just average students. These are some of the most unhappy people I've seen. They just don't adjust and end up hanging out at Charlie's Kitchen for four years...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: One Year Later : | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...popular mood in Santo Domingo was unmistakably jubilant. Thousands of cheering citizens waved white flags in honor of the victorious Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). They thronged the streets, tooting auto horns and shouting political slogans: "Ya ya Balaguer se va. ¿Que felicidad!" (Balaguer is going. What happiness!). After twelve years in office, the defeated Joaquin Balaguer, now 70 and nearly blind, was departing in favor of Politician-Farmer Antonio Guzmán, 67, a Social Democrat. It was the first time in this century that a freely elected President of the Dominican Republic had succeeded another such freely elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Joy in Santo Domingo | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...what Rockefeller called "a major step outside the family orbit," he se'rved as a cultural consultant to John Foster Dulles during negotiations in Tokyo on the peace treaty between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Shy Philanthropist | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...verite. The pro gram's power rests not in analysis but in immediacy. The footage seems to have been shot in the fly-on-the-wall manner of Film Maker Frederick Wiseman, but the editing is both jumpier and crisper than in Wiseman's works. In one se quence, the camera pans up an icicle-festooned stairwell inside a Newark tenement, enters an apartment squalid beyond words and comes to rest on an infant cooing over its bottle. No one states the obvious: that child will never have a chance. The faces of parents appear, studies in anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: No Limits | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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