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...week later television viewers watched a Notre Dame player be tackled as he went in for a lay-up in the closing minutes of a nip-and-tuck battle. Fortunately, Digger Phelps, the Irish coach, got to the two boys before any other players could...
Those interested in this subject may start by consulting the evidence marshalled by the late historian-anthropologist Joel A. Rogers in his multi-volume Sex and Race and his later pamphlet The Five Negro Presidents. Rogers was an indefatigable digger, and carefully cited his sources. At the same time, those familiar with his extensive oeuvre know that he, a Negro himself, tended to be overzealous in drawing conclusions from his data...
...many college presidents are like Charles G. Hurst Jr.-yet. He is a high school dropout who was a husband and father at 15. He has been a boxer, ditch digger, janitor, foundry hand and crane operator, and has served four months and 14 days in a North Carolina jail for being caught with bootleg liquor. Now 43, he delivers evangelistic speeches to his student body, garbed in dashikis, while from a gold chain around his neck hangs a carved African-style tiki in the form of a clenched fist...
...broadcast-were introduced into the conspiracy trial over defense objections that such a move violates the freedom and independence of the press. "It's just that I am in the wrong occupation," Carl Oilman said last week. "If I had been a construction worker or a ditch digger, none of this would have mattered." Precisely...
...conference of yippies and New Leftists in Denton, Mich., a legendary Digger named Emmett Grogan hurled the yippie challenge. As Hoffman recalls it: "All of a sudden he erupts and kicks the table over. He knocks down a girl, slapping SDS'ers right and left. 'Faggots! Fags! Take off your ties, they are chains around your necks. You haven't got the balls to go mad.' " For some reason, the New Leftists were not charmed. Leaders like Tom Hayden continued to talk owlishly of "imperialism" and "cooptation" ("I thought he said copulation" deadpans Abbie...