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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Restic expects the most trouble from a Quaker offense that has been sometimes wishbone and sometimes effective. Split and Nelson Johnson has been a long ball threat, with two 67-yd. TD s to his credit."Now is the time to turn it around," Restic said yesterday, and Penn rates as the most favored target for turning it around. Quarterback Burke St. John, the Ivy passing leader, proved himself something of a midder in last week's loss to Brown and he seems to be recovering steadily from his knee injury...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Hapless Penn Team Here | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

Politicians are divided over whether Kennedy is hurting himself by edging toward the center on too many issues. Many agree with liberal Democrat Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin that "it is inevitable in a campaign for you to moderate your views." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont disagrees. Says he: "People where I come from want their leaders to take a position. Those who try to shift with the wind tend to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Says Wisconsin's Nelson: "Early on, he frequently wasn't prepared. He took on too many issues. That's not so the last half-dozen years. He works hard. He does his homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

ONETIME vice president and very rich man Nelson Rockefeller was reputed to have rasped: "The bathroom is the great leveller--fella...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toilet Papers | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Richard Nixon. I had taught for over ten years at Harvard University, where among the faculty disdain for Richard Nixon was established orthodoxy. And the single most influential person in my life had been a man whom Nixon had twice defeated in futile quests for the presidential nomination, Nelson Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: SUMMONS TO POWER | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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