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...cheer in Michigan's Terry McDermott, ten pounds heavier and four years older (at 27) than he was when he astonished everyone by winning the men's 500-meter speed-skating race at Innsbruck in 1964. This time, on a rink that the sun had turned into slush, Terry surprised the experts again by finishing second in the 500-meter-barely .2 sec. behind West Germany's Erhard Keller...
Long's bill is not merely superfluous; it is dangerous. Giving money to the national committee would immeasurably increase party power at the national level; the bill would, as Senator Gore has pointed out, create national political party slush funds that committees could use to help state and local candidates of their choice. Critics have been so loud and insistent on this point that Long has proposed, in a "perfecting amendment," that the money go directly to a presidential candidate, instead of to his party's national committee. To prevent the nominees from using the money to buy local candidates...
...their decision to boot Illinois out of the conference unless Pete was fired-along with Illinois Basketball Coach Harry Combes and Combes's assistant Howard Braun (TIME, March 10). The three coaches had been found guilty of providing needy athletes with "walking-around money" from an alumni-financed slush fund...
Illinois itself had brought the existence of the slush fund to the attention of the Big Ten, but the faculty representatives were adamant: Elliott, Combes and Braun were through as coaches-although they could remain at the university in a purely teaching capacity. That sop hardly impressed the coaches, all three of whom formally resigned. And it did nothing to mollify the Illinois legislature, which set up a ten-man committee to investigate the goings-on at other Big Ten colleges. No telling what the committee may find. The father of one Illinois athlete claimed last week that...
Dribs & Drabs. The sentence was surprising-both in its severity and in its source. Although conference rules forbid any financial assistance to athletes beyond board, room, tuition and fees, slush funds are nothing new in the Big Ten: at least one of the athletic directors who sat in judgment on Illinois-Michigan State's Clarence ("Biggie") Munn-was implicated in a similar scandal himself, in 1953. For punishment, Michigan State was placed on probation for one year. All told, fully half of the Big Ten have been caught breaking the rules at one time or another; yet no coaches...