Word: clint
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Merv Griffin, Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath and Peggy Lee practice it. So do thousands of other Americans, both famous and unfamous. Their passion, Transcendental Meditation, was not much more than a student cult when it first caught on in the '60s. But today TM, as its devotees call it, claims a fast-growing following among suburban housewives, businessmen, athletes and even retirees. The number of active TM practitioners has jumped from about 250,000 two years ago to more than 575,000 at present. Now TM has achieved indisputable certification as a full-blown nationwide...
...Died. Clint ("Scrap Iron") Courtney, 48, pugnacious American League catcher of the 1950s and early 1960s; of an apparent heart attack; in Rochester, while on the road with the minor-league Richmond Braves, which he had managed since 1973. For more than a decade, Courtney played with six clubs, compiling a record of near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked...
...EIGER SANCTION, by contrast, is straightforward stuff, featuring Clint Eastwood pulling some derring-do on the side of one of Switzerland's highest mountains...
Also back - quite literally - on an old stomping ground last week was Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who reported to the Nation section on Round-the-World Walker David Kunst. Following on the heels of an earlier crack at peripatetic journalism - a glide-along with Cross-Country Roller Skater Clint Shaw last June -Woodbury logged ten huffing-and-puffing miles of legwork with the quick Kunst against a stiff head wind on a northern Iowa road...
...Kodiak, for instance (not to be too confused with Kojak), is an Alaska state trooper (Clint Walker), outfitted for trapping his man properly: snowmobile, snowshoes and icy determination. ABC's Nakia (Robert Banyon Forster) is a hot-tempered Navajo deputy sheriff in New Mexico, evidently intended to be confused with both the cult-film heroics of Billy Jack and the mystical-religious cant of Kung...