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...coming up to Super Sunday, when 70 million Americans will be watching the Super Bowl. Our cover story, written by Associate Editor B.J. Phillips, contrasts the opponents: the cool, efficient Cowboys and the upstart Broncos. One problem for Phillips was to figure out what lifts a team through all the playoffs and into the big bowl. "I finally concluded that Billy Clyde Puckett was onto something in Semi-Tough," she says. "He found out that everyone wants to win, but the champions are the guys...
Minnelli is only the latest in a long line of actresses savaged by Simon. He has described Maureen Stapleton as inhabiting "a large, amorphous body out of which protrude flipperlike limbs and a face without a single redeeming feature." To Simon, Maggie Smith resembles "an upstart rooster aspiring to barnyard supremacy." Glenda Jackson "has the looks of an asexual harlequin." Most leading ladies suffer Simon silently, but after he characterized Sylvia Miles as a "party girl and gate crasher," she dumped a plate of food on him in a Manhattan restaurant...
Young is not an upstart. He is crafty, determined and unflappable. Saturday night, after Norton's arm was raised, Howard Cosell knew he would not get much of a reaction from Young...
...with handshakes and bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship," Humphrey declared, "and I have received...
...anthropologists still look down on Richard Leakey, regarding him as an untrained upstart without proper academic credentials. But most of his colleagues believe he has more than made up in acquired knowledge for any lack of academic initials to place after his name. Yale's Pilbeam calls Leakey the "organizing genius" of modern paleoanthropology (the study of fossil hominids). Mary Leakey, a vigorous, cigar-smoking woman of 64 who still puts in eight hours a day exploring Olduvai, is also impressed. She says her son "is rather better than Louis was. I'm quite proud...