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...that all sounds like an onput (as a Washington Post editorial suggested), it is not. And it had all better be perfectly clear to Joan Braden, 49, mother of eight and wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, because she is now being paid $37,800 per annum to make sense...
Staubach's talent is throwing from the shotgun-the old football stand-by that Coach Tom Landry has adapted for third-down passing plays. Staubach sets up 5 yds. behind scrimmage, backpedals seven more after the snap and looks to hit any one of five receivers downfield. He says that the tactic allows him "to save a crucial couple tenths of a second"-time enough to read the defense, then choose one from a confusing mixture of possible passes in front of or behind opposing linebackers...
...only in solid red, has been since last June the official logo of the Lincoln-based Nebraska Educational Television Network. NETV Art Director Bill Korbus, working on salaried time, had developed the design. Total additional cost: less than $100, says Korbus. "It's hysterical," chuckles NBC Newscaster Tom Snyder. "It's one of those things that happen when executives sit down to do something creative...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a residue of that mid-sixties sentiment. Like the button it makes a sick kind of sense, though its message is, finally, silly and, in a simplistic way, evil. Only under flower-child aegis (Kesey's book was celebrated by Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg and other gurus) could a 1975 audience be fed such sexist, crypto-fascist garbage. In the end, it's nothing more than pop psychology on the level of a counter-cultural Reader's Digest. Unless people take it seriously, in which case it's nearly criminal...
...couldn't even drink the funny water, and you were always a little thirsty," sophomore Tom Howes added. "We just weren't really prepared like if it was a big international regatta...