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...historical odds prevailed at Providence this weekend, as the Brunonians rolled by Penn and Yale Saturday before clinching the championship Sunday with a 28-4 deluge over the smooth-passing, well-practiced Princeton Tigers...
...their editors first suggested that Washington Post Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward team up on the Watergate story, neither exactly danced on the city desk. The dissimilarities of the two junior reporters boded a stormy working partnership. To Bernstein, 30, a University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that...
...Okay. Rough or smooth...
...Cottle did not use a tape recorder or take notes when he spoke with the children. So his professed awareness only reinforces one's doubts that much of his "verbatim" recollection of extended narratives accurately captures the children's voices. Much of the talk is just too smooth, subtle and script-like. Eleven year-olds can be very insightful (as Cottle concludes), but it is still hard to imagine many of them launching into a cogent polemic such...
...Gordon was fencing excellently today," Marion said last night. "He was very smooth, very good. There was no struggling. The victories he produced were convincing ones. All the bouts he won were very elegant...