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...endurance of that image is probably the result of Ford's unusual ascent to the White House. Fate having granted Ford a reprieve from the strenuous tests of a national campaign, the nation's expectations of the new President were formed primarily by the nature of his predecessor. After the disillusionment produced by the corruption and arrogance of Richard Nixon's administration, Genghis Khan would have been welcomed with open arms. If Ford seemd incapable of inspired vision and strong leadership, he also seemed in-capable of inspired villainy or ingenious deceit. It would be enough, it seemed...
...other upset of the day, the Winthrop-Mather half game, Mather impressed onlookers early with its strenuous pre-game calisthenics and its coach, who wore sunglasses and a sweatshirt while carrying a clipboard. Winthrop was up 12-0 at the half (successful extra-points are not too common in intramural football), but the physician who is required to attend all games had left and the second half was indefinitely postponed...
...exercise wheel to tone up his 65-year-old physique, which could pass for that of a man half his age. Reagan eats sparingly, drinks an occasional screwdriver or a glass of wine, and averages a healthy eight hours of sleep each night. Far from taxing his energies, the strenuous campaign seems to have invigorated him. Although he is extraordinarily self-disciplined, he also has been suspected of being somewhat lazy, so his aides were pleasantly surprised at his ability to withstand the punishing physical demands of the campaign and his willingness to devote long hours to speechmaking and delegate...
TIME'S correspondents, writers and researchers covering the 1976 Summer Olympics are obviously on the announcer's side, but some of them once had more strenuous thoughts. Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber, who wrote the cover story, recalls the time when as a ten-year-old she hid her hair under a stocking cap and tried out for halfback on the football team of her Evanston, Ill., Catholic grammar school. "I was beating this guy out for the position," Schreiber says, "so he pulled off my cap, and the priest who was coaching the team shrieked...
After five years it is evident that Bok's 1971 promise to the Faculty to dedicate "his principal efforts in the future to education in its fullest sense" has not meant a search for holistic, abstract new educational philosophies but a strenuous concern with the nitty gritty of faculty appointments. "Care in making appointments is crucial," Bok says, "for Harvard can easily survive a mediocre president if it appoints the ablest professors, but the institution will go down hill steadily, regardless of its president, if mediocre appointments are allowed to be made...