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...work on the story. A transplanted South African, he recalls that he first encountered Australians as they passed through South Africa on their way to the Middle East during World War I: "My earliest memory is of watching, terrified, from an upper-story window as drunken, high-spirited, slouch-hatted Diggers brawled in Cape Town." After seven years running our Sydney bureau, he is now a confirmed Aussie...
...last of the oldtime scholar-presidents, though hardly a slouch at modern fund raising, Goheen is nearly a polar opposite of Yale's outspoken, well-publicized Kingman Brewster Jr. Nonetheless, Goheen's 14 years' experience as head of a great university seems unlikely to end with quiet retirement to a classics library. At his age, say Goheen watchers, his public life may have just begun...
...goals, the University must recognize its prime responsibility in education. The best means of doing this is to develop a faculty whose prime interest is teaching. This involves some personal renewal on the part of everyone on the faculty. Responsibility only sits on the shoulders of individuals. Committees slouch...
Coaches may shudder at some of the lifestyles, but most take it in stride -though Cornerback Earsell Mackbee claims that he was cut from the Minnesota Vikings this season for showing up one day in a red lace jumpsuit, a fake fur maxi vest and a slouch hat. "Freedom to express your own personality makes for a winning team," says the 49ers' Ken Willard. "It's the swinging feeling around the clubhouse. A feeling that they're them and I'm me." His teammate Gene Washington, who grooves on $350 Oscar de la Renta suits, deplores...
Pique at the Ranch. Before Nixon announced the Connally appointment, he informed Lyndon Johnson by telephone of his choice. Nixon thought that Johnson would be pleased. Not likely. Johnson, still no slouch as a Democratic politician, was furious. Part of it was pique that Connally had not consulted him about taking the job. More important, like many other Democrats, Johnson felt that the last thing any Democrat should do right now is identify the party with Nixon's economics. Says one Texan who knows both Johnson and Connally well: "The President [Johnson] feels that Nixon could...