Word: star
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that takes its basketball seriousy. Dixon was a two-time All-Metro selection and he led the Crimson in a pre-season exhibition with 12 points against Canadian Athletes in Action. His electric style of play prompts Allen to say, "he's combination of Alton Bryd (Columbia's graduated star guad) and Glen Fine (Harvard's graduated playmaker and Rhodes Scholar)." A pleasing...
...defend anywhere in the world, America found itself mired in the tropical hell of Vietnam--fighting a war with no strategy beyond slaughtering as many Viet Cong as possible, deploying awesomely lethal and destructive technology but without the will to wield it effectively. The war was run by "four star clowns fighting in a four star circus" as Colonel Kurz bitterly notes at the film...
Pennsylvania-born Stacks, who lives in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md., majored in political science at Yale ('64) and got his first journalistic exposure to national politics as a general assignment reporter for the Washington Star. By the 1968 campaign he had joined TIME, for which he covered the Democratic candidates through the election. In 1972, as Boston bureau chief, he followed the New England primaries, and in 1976 he was part of the Washington bureau team that trailed the Carter-Mondale campaign. After taking a leave from his correspondent's duties-first to help Watergate...
...when they watch Holden in The Earthling, a tale about an Australian bat-around-the-world who finally comes home to die. He stops along the way to take a beefcake bath-or in Holden's case, a sirloin splash-in an Australian stream. He also encounters Child Star Ricky Schroder (The Champ), who at nine has just lost mother and father in an automobile crash. What happens next is tearjerking. It also includes kangaroos and wallabies...
Faust's players are intensely loyal to him. "He treats everyone like a son," says Star Tailback Eric Ellington. "We don't think of him as a coach but as a father." At the end of each season, Moeller's football father says farewell in an emotional ceremony that has become traditional. After the final practice, the seniors line up to shake hands with the underclassmen and assistant coaches. This year, as always, Faust stood at the end of the line. He embraced each player, and when the ceremony was over, the teary-eyed seniors nodded their...