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Harvard's offense was devastating whenever it appeared on the field against Bucknell. Quarterback George Lalich looked a little smoother and more confident, halfback Ray Hornblower was cutting a little sharper and the two sophomore ends, Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman, continued to impress nearly everyone...
...about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...
...other Coop official stressed "smoother operation" at the Tech Coop, which opened in 1966. He added that the Tech branch is learning from experience what merchandise to stock for the highest profits...
...Government is gearing up programs that should make the Vietvet's return smoother than Witherspoon's. Project Transition, set up at Fort Knox by the Defense Department, is cooperating with industry to give vets training in everything from mathematics to data processing, and has already placed some Viet Nam veterans in jobs ranging from postal clerks to oil-company salesmen. President Johnson hopes to recruit Negro vets as ghetto schoolteachers, and a bill to that end is being drafted for presentation this year...
Shakers v. Smoothers. Clinton Rossiter categorizes Presidents as either earthshakers or earth-smoothers. Johnson's emphasis on consensus and conciliation, his efforts to bring businessman and laborer, black and white, city dweller and dirt farmer into his big tent, all seem to mark him as a smoother...