Word: unsung
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REPRESENTATIVE LESLIE ARENDS, 77, has been Republican Whip for 30 years and is one of Gerald Ford's key aides in pushing Nixon legislation through the House. Popular and gregarious, an unsung parliamentary tactician of confounding skill he blocked a 1971 House vote on the Mansfield Amendment, which called for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam within six months. For all his enthusiasm, however the Illinoisan is frank about G.O.P. problems when they occur. "The way things are going," he said during a low point, "we couldn't put the Ten Commandments into the bill...
...other unsung members of the team were honored yesterday as well. Senior halfback Bahman Mossavar-Rahmani and junior fullback Brian Fearnett both made All-Ivy honorable mention after receiving votes in the balloting...
...soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker, then manager of the CBS news programming, during the AFTRA strike...
Kerry Rifkin, performer on Crimson special teams for the last two season, received the William Paine LaCrois Trophy. The LaCrois award generally honors an "unsung here" for "sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit." This season Rifkin centered for punts and was a member of all Crimson special teams...
...Dance Company finds a major U.S. dancer and choreographer now watching from the wings (Limón is 64), but still managing to charge a young, vibrant ensemble with his familiar spirit, dignity and eloquence of movement. One new Limn work, The Unsung, a choreographically skillful paean to America's vanquished Indian heroes, was imbued with all of the solemnity of an Indian sun dance and, unfortunately, much of its tedium. But Orfeo, a free, ever-unwinding retelling of the old legend set to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 11, summoned up the poetic suggestiveness and exquisite line...