Word: game
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Where do lawyers get off sneering at the competence of laymen? Lawyers' competence is too often reserved for wheeling, dealing and flimflam rather than law and justice. People should not be merely fair game for the legal profession to prey...
...fast enough to make it in the N.F.L. despite the fact that he had not played football since high school. The scout from the Atlanta Hawks sought to sign up a power forward who had averaged 15.3 points and 7.4 rebounds a game during his college basketball career. And the fellow from the San Diego Padres was ecstatic over a pitcher-outfielder with a fine arm and a better bat (.379 with nine homers in his senior year...
...Acting is much like professional football," observes Norman Mailer, writer and sometime thespian. So when it came time to film his big scene in the movie Ragtime-wherein his character, Architect Stanford White, is assassinated by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Robert Joy)-the star got the pre-game jitters, "not because I was being shot, but because I might let the team down." He died like a pro. As the bullets flew, he slumped convincingly over a table, then rolled to the floor. His comely companion cried holy murder, which made Mailer especially proud. She is his sixth and current...
During much of the presidential election year, economic events were not determined by the White House or by Congress, but by the Federal Reserve. Indeed, in the opinion of many observers, "the Fed was the only game in town." When inflation roared to an annual rate of 18.2% in the first quarter and bond markets collapsed following Jimmy Carter's proposal of a fiscal 1981 budget with a $ 15.8 billion deficit, the Fed hit the brakes hard. It imposed credit controls on consumer borrowing and clamped down on bank lending. The prime rate, which began the year...
DIED. Elston Howard, 51, versatile slugger who was one of the pioneering blacks in baseball's major leagues; of cardiac arrest; in New York City. In 1955, eight years after Jackie Robinson breached the game's color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, Howard became the first black to play with the New York Yankees. After 13 seasons with the Yanks and one with the Boston Red Sox, he returned to Yankee Stadium as the American League's first black coach...