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Harvard may be missing quarterback Rod Foster, but the Crimson would have to bring Ralph Guglielmi out of the insurance business before it could lose to Brown. As it is, Eric Crone should have a good chance to beef up his statistics against the Bruins...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Both Teams Hampered by Injuries Harvard Favored to Beat Brown; | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

Meanwhile, back at the fort proper, Nixon last January unveiled the White House police in Student Prince-like uniforms allegedly inspired by his impressions of European palace guards. He modified those uniforms but launched the President's Trumpeteers to beef up the introductory ceremonies featuring "Hail to the Chief." Last June he shook up the Cabinet, causing columnist William S. White to say: "... the President is... openly reducing the institutional prestige and status of the Cabinet and drawing into the White House proper... the largest palace guard in history." Time's cover story last June 8, "Nixon's Palace Guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law and the Kingdom Church and State-Rush to Judgment | 11/5/1970 | See Source »

Chiles is by no means a liberal, but he does have a populist tinge about him. He has called for a revamping of the federal social legislation-the most frequent beef of the constituents he met. If he wins it will not be a victory for liberalism, but it will be a major defeat for the Madison Avenue style which elected Richard Nixon...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: The Battle for the Senate | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

...guests stood under a striped canopy on the lawn, finished their roast beef sandwiches, their soda and beer, their cake and apples, finished with all the other speakers. Al Capp, Li'l Abner's creator and one of the big attractions of the celebraton, had titillated them with a long chuckling monologue-"I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from Harvard.... As for John Kenneth Galbraith, well [chuckle], he's by far the best American economist since Edna St. Vincent Mllay.... I think the bedwetting, lunatic left knows that it's lost.... We're in for something...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: 10 Candles for YAF | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

...pigskin fan with a special cut-rate Monday-night admission price ($1.99 v. $3). No box-office figures are in yet on that ploy, and the long-term impact of prime-time football on show business-and on American home life-is also still undetermined. ABC's only beef so far is that the audience figures, encouraging as they are, do not include an estimated 250,000 additional males catching the Monday games at the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pigskin Chauvinists | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

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