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...played in the same league that produced All-Pro Dick Butkus, and we played rough and hard. Fundamentals were our watchword; no fancy suburban passing, no exotic option plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. We played ghetto schools and working-class white schools where the kids still grassed their hair. Our furthers were painters and policemen, and most of us thought of college merely as four more years of football. "I'm lower middle-class just like you are," Coach Hegener would scream at us. "I could make more money coaching in the suburbs...
...York's Montefiore Hospital, and his wife Ruth, a psychiatric social worker, who toured hospitals in mainland China for a month last fall. Writing in a recent issue of Social Policy, the Sidels describe the Chinese approach as a blend of both old and new. "The watchword of the entire enterprise," they say, is Mao's exhortation, "Let us heal the wounded and rescue the dead." Its framework is "a powerful community mental health design" not unlike what some American experts advocate...
...Shultz still had Nixon's ear. With Nixon's express approval, he proclaimed in April that no changes were contemplated in the Administration's approach. "Steady as she goes" was the watchword, said Shultz...
...state with ordering the murder of Fellow Panther Alex Rackley. A rally last year in support of Scale and his codefendant, Mrs. Ericka Huggins, attracted 15,000 demonstrators and a host of National Guardsmen to the New Haven Green, and "Free Ericka, Free Bobby" became a protest watchword, aerosoled onto sidewalks and building fronts across the country. The jury selection required a laborious four months; more than 1,500 individuals were called and 1,035 examined before the body was empaneled. No less a figure than Yale President Kingman Brewster voiced skepticism that any black revolutionary could get a fair...
...interesting footage still carries editorial weight that can sway news judgment. Example: one night last week, NBC Producer Robert Mulholland rejected a plane-crash story with the comment, "No flames in the film. Too quiet." But generally, the networks have matured since the days when "Shoot bloody" was the watchword of Viet Nam War coverage, and they are constantly evaluating their own performance. Last week NBC News President Reuven Frank reminded his staff in a memo that "misleading practice" has been forbidden for years and noted, "I get as weary of being called on to be Caesar's only...