Word: knightly
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...Lucas--director of the original 1977 Star Wars and executive producer of this summer's The Empire Strikes Back--plans to depict the Rebellion's struggle against the diabolical Empire in nine films, divided into three trilogies. The first two segments, which relate the story of would-be Jedi knight Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), are actually episodes IV and V of the envisioned series...
...most successful U.S. manufacturer of the fancy new footwear is Blue Ribbon Sports of Beaverton, Ore., a privately held company founded by Running Enthusiasts Phil Knight, 42, and Bill Bowerman, 69. In just eight years, Blue Ribbon Sports and their Nike (rhymes with psyche) shoes have gone from a standing start to sales of $260 million, and this year they could climb to $360 million or more. Nike is now aiming to overtake Adidas, the West German sports giant. Nike already has 136 models, for every sport from running and tennis to volleyball and wrestling. This year it plans...
...Knight and Bowerman, the former University of Oregon track coach, met in 1958, when Knight was a business student at Oregon and a miler of some accomplishment (best time: 4:13). For years the crusty coach had been trying to design a better running shoe in his kitchen. "American shoes were just awful," says Bowerman, because they were heavy and lacked cushioning...
...Knight and his old track mentor each put up $500 and went into business importing Japanese running shoes. In 1972 they first produced their own make of shoe, naming it after the Greek goddess of victory. Just before the 1972 Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., Knight and Bowerman persuaded several marathon runners to try them. Runners wearing Adidas finished first, second and third, but the next four runners wore Nikes...
Anderson appears to many as a white knight on a crusade, but to those of us in the mainstream of political life, he is Don Quixote, leading his befuddled followers down a hopeless, inane road...