Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown struck first, jumping to a quick 13-0 lead on a Dennis Coleman keeper and a blocked punt. Coleman, the running half of the Bruin's tandem quarterback team, drove Brown 50 yards the first time the Bruins had the ball. With Harvard keying on Coleman's running talents, the Bruin quarterback twice picked up valuable yardage with pesky over-the-middle passes, to extend the drive. Then, on second and goal, Coleman sliced through left tackle for the score...
...current, barely concealed antagonism between President Nixon and Vice President Agnew is a reminder that the nation's top two officials seldom get along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent...
...match with Court and the vast interest it created in the Riggs shtik. An ecstatic Bobby suddenly captured the fame that had eluded him even when he was the nation's top amateur tennis player in the late 1930s. After he signed with Promoter Jerry Perenchio, president of Tandem Productions* (Maude, All in the Family, Sanford & Son), Tandem sent him on a promotional trip to Beverly Hills...
...signing has produced legal problems. Jackie Barnett, executive producer of both the Riggs-Court and the Riggs-King matches, has brought suit against Tandem for allegedly not giving him "due attention." A more substantive suit has been filed by CBS, which presented the Riggs-Court match and insists that it was not given sufficient time to pick up its option for the upcoming clash. A hearing is scheduled for this week, but no one expects court action to stop the show...
...weather was horrendous for track and field competition yesterday, forcing four field events indoors, but it made little difference to the Harvard-Yale thinclads in their meet with a squad of Oxford-Cambridge, England athletes. The Crimson-Eli tandem crushed the visiting English team, 11-5, to win its fourth straight in this international series...