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...been a very difficult summer," Watson acknowledges, as he has had to consider the vacancies for coaching spots in men's vasity basketball, women's crew, squash and tennis and an assistant slot on the men's swim team. The most serious vacancy to crop up, though, was a direct fallout of the athletic director controversy. Late last month Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of athletics and a leading contender for Watson's job, left Harvard to become director of publicity and special events for the United States Olympic Committee in New York...
...tried to break his contract, or at least reduce his projected schedule. NBC, however, refused to let him out. Though he makes network brass as nervous as they make him, NBC is desperate for a hit. The Richard Pryor Show has been strategically placed in the same Tuesday night slot as ABC's Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, which are No. 1 and No. 2 in the ratings. With his fresh, unpredictable humor, Pryor might just be the wild hit that could topple the opposition...
Eugene O'Neill kept a player piano, which he had found in a whorehouse, covered with pictures of naked women, and when he could sneak away from his bossy wife Carlotta, he would go down to the basement, drop nickels into the slot and listen to ragtime. Once when Cerf was visiting, the ailing playwright crooked his finger and beckoned him downstairs, like a mischievous little boy. In the middle of a tune, Carlotta came down. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," she screamed, "bringing Bennett down here! You're in pain, remember...
...owed $146 million. He has since turned back some California and Texas properties and reduced his obligations to about $90 million. His casinos are being investigated by the Clark County (Las Vegas) district attorney and the Nevada Gaming Control Board following charges that substantial sums were skimmed from the slot machines. La Costa Land Co., which owns the La Costa, the chic California oasis where Fitzsimmons has golfed with former President Richard Nixon, owes the fund $66.6 million. According to the latest annual report almost half of these loans were classified as "uncollectible...
...Square's madness starts reaching a dangerous crescendo, if the Organic Chemistry starts looming up all around, if your summer roomie is a lunatic, then you only need drop out of sight into the subway station, drop a quarter into the slot, and leave Harvard behind. It's cheap escape...