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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1978
CASUAL FASHIONS
for
GUYS & GALS
TOP DRAWER
Culpepper Plaza
Day students get their news from the Batt.
Paul Arnett
Not all fun and games
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See the clouds that drift so far
below
Ever changing as they come and go
Makes me wonder why I’m up so
high
When really I am down so low.
Clouds—David Gates
It was an early Sunday morning in
Mandeville, Ark.
The one-horse town, which
boasted a liquor store and a service
station, had barely awakened when
a maroon and white Ford sailed over
the dusty streets.
“I wonder where they’re going to in
such an all-fired hurry?” Karl said to
no one in particular. “I betcha my
suspenders those fellers were driv
ing 90.”
The words had barely fallen from
his lips when old Karl, watching
from his service station window, saw
the two occupants of the auto come
strolling back into town.
“My car quit running,” one of the
men said to Karl who sat behind a
crusty candy counter. “It was driv
ing o.k. when all of a sudden it
started making a loud banging
sound.”
Karl eyed them suspiciously be
fore replying to the man’s remarks.
“The way you fellers were driving
I’m surprised you got this fer,” Karl
said. “Sounds like you threw a rod
to me. If that’s the case, then you’d
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better call a wrecker in Texarkana to
come and haul ‘er in.”
The two Texans weighed the old
man’s thoughts, talked among
themselves, and then headed to the
nearest phone.
“Mom, Dad, my car broke
down,” the blond man said. “Me
and Jamie called a wrecker in
Texarkana and they’re coming to get
it. We re gonna catch the first bus
out of town after the car is taken
care of. See you in Dallas.”
That incident happened to me on
the way back from Blacksburgh, Va.
My self-made assignment was cov
erage of the Texas A&M-Virginia
Tech game. The trip which ensued
convinced me that being a sports
reporter isn’t all fun and games. On
the contrary, it may be the hardest
job in the journalism profession.
Now before all you armchair
quarterbacks start dialing my phone
number and telling me how lucky I
am, listen to some of these
thoughts.
First of all the sports reporter
does a lot of traveling. Now this is
exciting at first, but being on the
road gets old in a hurry.
Some of the travel Ls by air, but
the majority of the trips occur in an
automobile. If you don’t wear out,
the car does. And when it decides
it’s had enough then you’re in trou
ble.
After the travel, comes the food.
Mind you it ain’t mom’s home cook
ing. In fact it don’t even match
dad’s. Some of the ‘food’ I’ve placed
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in my tummy would make a buzzard
burp.
One such incident occurred in El
Paso. After the Sun Bowl game I
had the pleasure of some real live
Mexican food. My dreams were
filled with visions of tamales dancing
in my head.
If the food and travel don’t get
you, having to cover the game will.
While all of you are out kissing your
girl friends, the sports reporter is
busily jotting down notes about
whom is doing what.
When the game is done and
everyone is heading to the house,
the sports reporter is down in the
dressing room trying to transf
garbled ideas into elegant i
Next comes the press confen
If you never sit through oneoftlul
boring affairs then you’re mucH
ter off. The same questions areJ
swered in the same manner. I
write down what you wrote cb
last week, get you a drink then
back to the motel for a few hour!
sleep.
You’re awakened all too soon
the motel operator who infoc
you the sun is on the rise.
It’s another early morningi
another one-horse town.
Tickets played hard to get
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Visitors from
the Philadelphia area went home
from their Super Bowl weekend
happy, but it took 27 hours of
searching and hundreds of dollars
paid to ticket scalpers.
A Pennsylvania tour director said
it took four days to find 1,400 extra
tickets for visitors who thought their
$489 Super Bowl tour included ad-
mission to the game.
Barry Gerber of ^ravel Leisi
Concepts, Inc., of jadelphias
a usually reliable 4/' t distribil
failed to deliver tii i. ts to Sunil!
game and the tour director hit!
streets to find pass, for his custi
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“These have been the four is
emotional days of my life,” Geil
said after his charges were sal
herded through S iperdome gall
“We’ve been try «g to locate
since Thursday and a few
worked for 27 consecutive hours
fore we finally located enough ti
ets.
“We found them all locally,
worked and worked and worked
Gerber said he and his
“combed evr / hotel lobby, comii
every stree t to find the tick
which had a face value of $30
He admitted he paid scalpers
most of the last-mh e tickets.
“Is David Ben-Guvion Jewisk?
the Pope Catholic? Were
scalped,” he said.
He blamed the ticket shortage
the National Football League, s
ing league officials withheld tic!
from the east coast in order to
ply Denver fans in the west.
An NFL spokesman denied
charge, saying the league did
deal with any travel agencies.
The marathon ticket search c
$100,000, Gerber said. He said
estimated six other travel agenc
failed to receive tickets ordered
special Super Bowl tours.
About 490 members of a N
York tour had to settle for theSu|
Bowl on television at their New!
leans hotel.
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