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...imagine I could be the smallest player in history," Henry Sandow, a senior halfback on the Harvard football team, says. "For my size, I'm certainly the baddest...
...Mayor Abraham Beame and Governor Hugh Carey seem well aware of Ford's rhetorical aim. Their own arguments about New York are designed to bring it back into the fold, to identify it as strongly as possible with the rest of America, and to describe it in the smallest, least intimidating terms possible. "We need not a handout," Carey complained bitterly last month, "but the recognition by the Federal Government that we are a part of this country." Beame ended a long speech last week by conjuring up the same kind of vision. "We cannot avoid our national responsibilities...
...Composer Elmer Bernstein says: "he possesses a grandeur of vision that is quite staggering." His daughter Teresa, 15, thinks he is "just like a good friend." At first meeting, Tom Laughlin's glittering blue eyes and ready grin make him seem the soul of affability. But beware. The smallest infraction can trip a temper that has become as infamous as Mussolini's. Tom's face grows scarlet, and his voice sounds like the Devil's in The Exorcist. "It's an awesome, frightening experience," says a colleague. At 44, happy-faced Tom may be Hollywood...
More significant−though scarcely startling after decades of dashed hopes−almost all the new programs are the smallest possible variants on well-established genres−ethnic sitcoms, cop and doctor shows, revivals of such time-tested media favorites as Ellery Queen and The Invisible...
...faculty would not be so bad if it were no for the game played with tenure--a game whereby people are hired with the promise of tenure and then fired after several years on the faculty. The department has less than three tenured professors, placing it among the smallest in the University. Explained one VES concentrator: "They don't mind paying someone a certain amount of money, but they don't like the idea that they've created a tenure position that obligates them to pay that certain amount forever and ever...