Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebounding strength should provide the difference for Harvard; Tech has only two starters taller than 6-1, and it will take a lot more than slide rules and game theory to contain Williams, Inman, and McClung...
...Tahiti. It only made Hayden more restless. He lived on and off boats, consulted a psychiatrist and watched his career slide. He describes how he was asked to play Tarzan by a zealous producer who had heard he had a flaming desire to save the world: "Maybe you don't realize that Tarzan represents the free man who stands alone against the forces of evil. Perhaps you could strip to the waist . . ." The troubled Hayden returned to the sea-loading his children aboard the schooner Wanderer and, in defiance of a court order, taking off with them for Tahiti...
Gone are the esoteric defensive patterns fancied by longtime Assistant Coach Clark Shaughnessy (who quit last season after an angry tiff with Halas)-the 20-odd formations, the constant red dogs, the complicated codes used for calling signals in the defensive huddle (example: "Blue Hairy Flag, 38, Slide Up"). This year's Bears have but seven basic formations, get their signals in plain English. "It's old-fashioned football," says Coach Halas "Just like I used to play...
...argue that their profit picture has been artificially brightened by the new 7% investment tax credit and liberalized depreciation rules, which together added more than $100 million to railroad earnings in 1962. Though freight revenues are running 2.5% ahead of 1962, railroaders also point out that passenger revenues will slide 4% this year (to $600 million) and that 24 big railroads are still...
...sweep of history here. Instead, there is the sense of an earnest man trying to do his best. Admirers will find in its unadorned prose the reassuring image of the President who tried to put himself above politics. Critics will find in it the exasperating ability to slide away from crucial controversy...