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...quality of the football. Both coaches and both teams have certainly sweated long and hard over drills and diagrams, and deserve the backing of the fans. But this year, as in many years past, both teams are slamming each other to gain next-to-last place in a slightly dubious Big Three championship. The men who left the middle West for Harvard Stadium this week could have seen a finer brand of football by staying home...
Whew. Those of you who have read the splenetic outburst about San Francisco on a previous page should understand one thing: my colleague is a native Southern Californian. The few people who can claim that dubious honor are drilled from childhood to think of my part of the state as the evil empire. Come to think of it, a former Governor once believed Northern California was a far more dangerous place than that den of evil, Grenada. Since most of the water coming out of the lawn sprinklers in Bel Air and since all the ice cubes solidifying themselves...
Although the rivalry between Florida State and Miami is intense, the Hurricanes aren't the Seminoles' most hated foe. That dubious distinction goes to the University of Florida...
There have been some famous ties in Harvard history, like the year 1968 when Harvard "beat" Yale 29-29, but last Saturday's tie earned this year's team a dubious honor. The game marked the first time that a Crimson team scored more than 30 points and didn...
...Irish wolfhound, which he named Proxmire after the Senator who opposed his confirmation. "Heel, Proxmire," Seidman would bark. But not long ago, as Seidman prepared to step down from his post, William Proxmire wrote a flattering valedictory to the chairman. So Seidman renamed his dog Annunzio in dubious honor of Frank Annunzio, chairman of a House Banking subcommittee, who has sparred with Seidman over the S&L bailout. Seidman tells colleagues that when he calls "Annunzio! Annunzio!" the dog rolls over and plays dead...