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...idyl has ended. Scandalized by the disclosure that needy Illinois athletes had received "walking-around money" from an alumni-financed slush fund, the Big Ten's athletic directors voted last month to expel Illinois from the conference-unless the university fired Elliott as well as Basketball Coach Harry Combes and his assistant Howard Braun. Last week Illinois appealed the decision to the Big Ten board of faculty representatives, and got turned down cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coaches: Slipping in Slush | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...them. The magazine went out of its way to emphasize that the changes involved only 1,600 words out of 60,000, and Editor in Chief William Attwood of Cowles Communications, the magazine's publisher, told New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "We gave up some slush; a little gingerbread's off the top, but the structure's intact." The fact remained, however, that Look's editors had fought hard to preserve the gingerbread-and that, in the end, Jackie took it away from them. After the Look negotiations, a spokesman for Harper said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Chapter II - or Finis? | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me), and Mairzy Doats. And, finally, there is the hinky-dinky-parlay-voo tradition of battlefield ballads composed by the boys themselves. Sometimes ironic, often obscene, and almost always derived from some other melody, these songs are refreshingly free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter. D-Day Dodgers, and that comprehensive speculation on the genitalia of the German High Command which was sung to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March, Hitler Had Only...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: The Ballads of the Green Berets | 3/30/1966 | See Source »

While the other teams in the league attend daily practice sessions during January, our snowmen trudge through slush on their way to final exams. Consequently, the team gets its practice during the early meets and is always the most improved team during the season...

Author: By Carl F. Allen jr., | Title: Snowmen Need Practice at Williams To Get Ready for Middlebury Meet | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...subsumed under national development plans. The emphasis on national development was not intended to divorce foreign aid from the political interests of the United States. But it looked to long-term rather than short-term political effects. In this view, foreign aid, instead of being a State Department slush fund to influence tactical situations, should aim at the strategic goals of a stronger national independence, an increased concentration on domestic affairs, greater democracy and a long-run association with the west...

Author: By Arthur M. Schlesinger jr., | Title: Schlesinger on Kennedy and Harvard | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

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