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Similarly, Pete Newell could smile at Brazil's great basketball moment last month. In 1960 Newell coached Oscar Robertson and Jerry West to the Olympic gold medal by an average of more than 40 points a game. "What's the fun in that?" he asks. Along with other coaching ambassadors, he began traveling the world and spreading the gospel. "Now there are good basketball players in Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon ((a Beirut pivotman carried Syracuse to the last N.C.A.A. final)), all over Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, almost everywhere. We're not going backward; they're just coming...
...number of prospects will hope to crack the Crimson's starting line-up and send Harvard to a third straight NCAA Final Four appearance. The recruits include: John Biotti, Chris' younger brother, of Newton; Pete Ciavaglia of Synder, Ted Donato of Dedham; Michael Francis of Braintree; Matt Silwa of Acton; Eric Vandal of Seekonk; Michael Vukonich of Duluth, Minn.; and Michael Weisbrod of Woodbury...
...Friday, a few days after school bells called students to class around the country, a roster of White House hopefuls gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for earnest seminars on the subject. In separate forums, all seven active Democratic campaigners and Republicans Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont debated the single topic of how to boost the failing grades being given to American education...
...baseball solved a strike in two days, with Commissioner Peter Ueberroth shyly accepting most of the credit. To fuzzy suggestions that he somehow ought to ride to a similar rescue, Football Czar Pete Rozelle responds, "I don't think anyone can go in and wave a magic wand and have it ; settled." Sighing glumly, he adds, "I'm not a knight on a white horse...
Republicans are even more tongue-tied on the deficit. They are roughly divided into two camps: the Hand Wringers, who are outspoken on stressing the problem and somewhat reluctant to offer solutions (Dole and Alexander Haig), and the Supply-Siders, who ignore it completely (Kemp and Pete du Pont). Characteristically, Bush is somewhere in the middle. Recently, the Vice President timidly allowed, "If all the domestic spending has been cut that can be cut, then and only then would ((I)) consider the other alternative." That alternative, too frightening to whisper aloud, is higher taxes...