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...response to the controversy, Georgia President Fred Davidson ordered the university's coaches not to accept any more partial qualifiers. Because this rule would place Georgia's teams at a competitive disadvantage, the coaches successfully lobbied the Southeast Conference (SEC) to adopt the regulation for all of its member schools...
...most Harvard athletes, sports is an education in its own right. Sports "can teach you as many things as you can learn in the classroom," says basketball player Fred Schernecker...
...older brother, Fred Trump Jr., rebelled against carrying on the family business. He became an airline pilot, took to drink and died of alcoholism in 1981 at the age of 43. "He was a really wonderful guy who didn't particularly like this business," says Trump. "It was a sad thing. It is something I have never been able to figure out. It was one of the most difficult things I've had to deal with...
...kind of deal that Trump now calls "my favorite art form." An unknown and unwealthy hustler of 30, he had to persuade some bankers to lend him $80 million (he did) and some politicians to give him a $120 million tax abatement (he did). It did not hurt that Fred Trump was a regular contributor to the Brooklyn Democratic machine, or that Governor Hugh Carey and Mayor Abe Beame both happened to be Brooklyn Democrats, or that Trump put Carey's chief fund raiser on his payroll. Young Trump also had to find an architect to build a reflecting glass...
...charges focused on William Parkin and Fred Lackner, both private defense consultants, and Stuart E. Berlin, former head of the Navy's ship- engineering section at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Court papers describe a scheme in which California's Teledyne Industries paid Parkin and Lackner to obtain confidential information about Government procurement plans for a system to identify military aircraft. They in turn bribed Berlin to turn over the information. Parkin was also charged with paying Berlin to help New York's Hazeltine Corp. win a contract for a radar test device. Hazeltine...