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...current NFL tight end, John Spagnola--who weighs more than most linemen--holds The Game record for throwing Yale's longest scoring pass...
When opponents assailed him in 1982 as a carpetbagger who was running for Congress only about a year after moving to Arizona, Republican John McCain had a ready retort: "The longest place I've ever lived in my life is Hanoi." That was no exaggeration: after a peripatetic life as a Navy pilot, McCain was shot down over Viet Nam in 1967 and spent the next 5 1/2 years in a prisoner- of-war camp. He came out with two broken arms and a broken leg; he still walks with a slight limp and cannot raise his right forearm above...
...last Wednesday, an exhausted Rilwanu Lukman, the Nigerian Oil Minister and president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, emerged from a conference room at Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel to announce that the cartel had ended its longest meeting ever. After 17 days of bitter wrangling, OPEC had agreed to renew its two-month-old pact to keep oil production down in an effort to push up prices. The group intends to hold daily output to 17 million bbl. a day, up only slightly from the current 16.8 million...
...before television, Ring Lardner's World Serious was never as somber as baseball's capitalists made it seem for the longest time last week. Late- night games on weekends are crimes against nature. When venality becomes a ground rule, a dreariness seeps into the cool night air, and the Red Sox and Mets seemed only alternately able to shake it. "Here's the windup and the pitch," in the modern form, means The Cosby Show is ending, the Merrill Lynch commercials know no boundaries, and it is getting on to 9 p.m. EDT -- cue the pitchers...
...they won their third National League pennant in a tense six-game playoff with Houston, culminating in the longest post-season game in history, a 6-5, 16-inning victory in the Astrodome...