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...Wilkinson returns to football-and trouble...
Senior Editor James D. Atwater first met Bud Wilkinson when he was still coaching at Oklahoma, completing his legendary record of 145 victories against just 29 defeats and four ties. The two men wrote a book on physical fitness, and later Wilkinson, then a prominent Republican, made Democrat Atwater his deputy on the staff of the Nixon White House. Like most people who know Wilkinson well, Atwater was not surprised when his friend decided, after 15 years, to return to coaching with the St. Louis Cardinals. Last week Atwater took a close look at the onetime college wonder...
...scene in the locker room before the Dallas game summed up Wilkinson's approach to football. He did not raise his voice-he seldom does, or needs to-but he held the attention of the Cardinals. Wilkinson was not talking about pass patterns or defensive alignments; he was describing, with unabashed and unaffected emotion, a time 25 years in the future when the players would be remembering this game. You are going to wish you were back here, he told them, and you had a chance to put it all on the line in an afternoon-to test yourself...
...point man in what lawyers already are calling the "4-1-4" Bakke decision illustrates his propensity toward thoughtful moderation. "The key problem is one of balance," Powell once said, referring to the conflict between the rights of suspects and the need for law-and-order. Says J. Harvie Wilkinson, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who once clerked for Powell: "By temperament, he tries to find common ground among varying points of view." Powell hates to be categorized as liberal or conservative. Says he: "Not one of us is a prisoner of blind prejudices...
...dark everyone goes outside, where a 25-ft. cross swathed in kerosene-soaked rags stands in a field. Rifle-toting Klansmen guard the perimeter. The others button up the face panels on their hoods. Wilkinson rehearses them, but they are awkward at the ritual. As they wave their arms, they look a bit like high school cheerleaders learning a pom-pom routine. Some cannot see too well through those eyeholes. Slowly they circle the cross, throwing torches at its foot. The flames race upward, and all salute by raising both arms, as if crucified...