Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Elis were upsetting Harvard in the rain ten days ago, they were visibly the more inspired bunch; such is the stuff that upsets are made of. Inevitably, one wonder if this is the reason behind Harvard's unexpected rash of losses...
...stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...
...wrong--I like football as well as the next guy and I suppose you could make a case that I like it even a little more. But this spring practice stuff has gotten more than a little out of hand. For example at USC the first day out in pads the coaching staff put the squad through a full-speed, full-contact scrimmage that put a number of ballplayers in the training room--and the hospital. You might say that's life but this ain't even football season. Spring practice is supposed to be a learning experience...
...guys that spring practice could help, the ballplayers that could improve with some personal coaching, that deserve a closer look? Coach Joe Restic would like to see the Ivy League adopt a limited spring format where upcoming sophomores and non-lettermen could voluntarily don the pads to show their stuff, to learn techniques not yet mastered, to benefit from individualized attention, to get a better shake. This is what spring practice once was and this is what spring practice should again...
Jordan still resists being pegged as Carter's chief of staff, either in name or in fact. Says a Jordan intimate: "Hamilton doesn't like the kind of stuff a chief of staff has to deal with, all those intramural problems and the paper flow." Jordan himself says that he has no desire to get in the way of Carter's contact with Cabinet officers and other staffers. The West Wing troops, he believes, must "function as a staff should -that is, to support Carter and monitor things that are going on in the Federal Government...