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Cynical fans had begun to wonder less about a player's totals in yards rushing than in drugs rushing. Last week National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, 57, finally decided to tackle the problem with the first N.F.L. suspensions for using cocaine. Pete Johnson, 29, and Ross Browner, 29, of the Cincinnati Bengals, E.J. Junior, 23, of the St. Louis Cardinals and Greg Stemrick, 31, of the New Orleans Saints will be barred from training camp, practice sessions and competition through the fourth game of the N.F.L. season. That will cost them about 25% of their salaries. "N.F.L. players...
August 9--Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthne...
...last Harvard player to break through was Pete Varney '71, who had a mediocre stint with the Chicago White Sox before closing out his career with the Atlanta Braves in 1975. Varney now coaches for Brandeis...
...consumer purchasing power." The New York program has already placed 11,000 low-income youngsters in large firms like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Similar private programs are thriving in cities as economically diverse as St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit and Los Angeles. In Tampa, Baseball Stars Johnny Bench, Pete Rose and Lou Piniella, as well as other celebrities, have pitched in, appearing in TV commercials to promote summer jobs for teenagers. The Boston summer-jobs program, a coalition of 187 businesses, in conjunction with local schools, teaches "job readiness" skills like how to dress for work and prepare...
...compromise measure passed easily in the Democratic-controlled House but needed Republican support in the Senate. Among the 19 Republicans voting for it: Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico. Meant as an incentive to congressional selfdiscipline, the resolution does not go to the White House for approval or veto. The stage is thus set for a bitter, lengthy clash between Capitol Hill and the White House over specific tax and spending bills...