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...nutritiousness, economy and skill of preparation. (The French, while masters of no-expense-spared gourmet cooking, have never come in better than third at Frankfurt; they sulked at home this year.) The first U.S. team entered the Olympics in 1956 and got shut out. But in 1968 the Yank chefs were able to cop 16 golds, more than any other national team that year, and in 1976 they won 30 medals, a record high for individual competition. Each team must make 100 plates of its hot and cold dishes, which are sold at a public restaurant. One sign of success...
...outlived them. He now seems somehow above the fray, a man who has left his past behind. And he has mellowed. His practices are no tougher and his teams tackle no more savagely than those of other top football schools, and the day is long past when he would yank a star quarterback out of a hospital bed and send him out to play. But just as in the old days, his players still regard him with awe that is tinged with fear. There is no physical intimidation, in the style of the deposed Woody Hayes of Ohio State...
Pennsylvania's vote sealed Kennedy's fate. Its 83 votes against his position provided the winning majority. On the previous weekend, Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss had been worried enough about Pennsylvania to instruct a Carter whip working the delegation: "Tell them we'll yank them off the damned convention floor if they don't want to vote with us. Whip, whip, whip them into shape!" The final tally was 1,936.4 to 1,390.6 in favor of Carter's position on the rule?an unexpectedly comfortable margin of 545.8 votes...
...account he has just landed. Ted is so self-absorbed that he cannot believe that Joanna is really miserable enough to leave him. As she waits for the elevator in the hallway of the Kramers' East Side highrise, Ted talks only about himself. Finally he tries to yank the fragile Joanna back into their apartment, as if sheer force were enough to mend their split. "Please don't make me go in there," pleads Streep, her voice nearly a deathly whisper. She pulls away from her husband with such revulsion that no one watching her could fail...
Congress, though, is determined to yank some of the FTC's teeth. The House Commerce Committee voted to give Congress a veto power over all commission regulations. This would be the first time that any federal regulator had been so controlled. By a lopsided 223 to 147 vote, the House two weeks ago recommended canceling commission plans to force undertakers to disclose their prices fully and in advance. Representative Bill Frenzel of Minnesota suggested that every FTC staff member and all five commissioners "should spend 20 years at hard labor filling in their own asinine forms." The Senate Commerce...