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Though he teaches calm and control, Newell is far from calm himself. On game days, he keeps going on 20 cups of coffee, three packages of Chesterfields, has a supply of wet towels near him on the bench so that he can chew on them to relieve the tension. Bear players, to whom defense was a mystery before Newell, regard their coach as a genius. Marvels Guard Bobby Wendell: "Before I came here, I didn't even know what defense was. But once you get the hang of it, it's more fun than scoring...
...transferred to Atlanta, Bob Hogg's group sent a special teacher to help the Coffeys avoid the debilitating kindness that can stunt a blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush her teeth, even to chew (something many children learn by watching others). In a nursery school she played unselfconsciously with sighted children, conducted herself with fiery, four-year-old independence...
...against snoring, asked all British sufferers (and their suffering spouses) to write in the answers to questions that might shed light on causes and remedies. Sample questions: At what age did the snorer begin snoring? In what position does he sleep? Does he have false teeth, or smoke, or chew...
Shaken by the President's intervention, Blough and McDonald agreed to resume negotiations-this time in Pittsburgh instead of New York. Management finally got around to making the union a money offer to chew on. But it was a small offer, totaling about 8? an hour in added benefits as against McDonald's demand for a 15? package. And at the same time the steel industry stuck determinedly to its insistence on contract changes, including revision...
...industry cannot pay from three to eight times the hourly wages paid abroad and compete with foreign manufacturers. Let U.S. labor leaders in their endless quest for "more" chew on this hard, inescapable fact...