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...Americans Billy Marino and Mike French--surely one of the best half-dozen men ever to play the game--graduated last spring, but Cornell is still tough. The big gun is attackman Eamon McEneaney, who spent two years breaking various assist records while passing the ball to French and this year started to score goals in bunches himself...
...prejudice of white fans against a black man calling signals and directing the team does not help. Joe Gilliam was one of the first black N.F.L. quarterbacks, starting six preseason and another half-dozen regular-season games for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974. His record up to that point was 10-1-1, but his life was hell in a very small place. Lynn Swann recalls: "He would get anonymous phone calls. They said they could rip him off any time they wanted to, there were two guns pointed at him, that if he started the ball game...
Senior faculty members in European history this week disagreed sharply with Handlin. "Some members of the department--certainly at least a half-dozen--expressed surprise and indignation at what emerged at that faculty meeting," one senior Europeanist said. "And that does not take account of the people that, though absent from the meeting, expressed similar sentiments later...
...Harvard point total came from one source: Tom Wolf. The Crimson backstroker finished seventh in the 200-yard competition with a time of 1:49.75. Wolf grabbed seventh place by winning the consolation heat after Naber and five other swimmers determined the first half-dozen places...
...City's Plaza Theater was lined with snow and shiny limousines. It was the opening of Pumping Iron (TIME, Jan. 24), and the first-night crowd for this filmed tribute to the glories of body building included Singer Paul Simon, Painter Jamie Wyeth, Princess Yasmin Khan and a half-dozen muscle-bound kids from Yonkers. After the première, Pumping Iron Star Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced fellow Strongman Franco Columbu, who proceeded to bend steel bars with his bare hands and burst a hot-water bottle with his bare breath. More hulks followed onstage to flex and pose, along...