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Louisiana bluesman Robert Pete Williams will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday in Kirkland Jr. Common Room...
...surface (whether it is Mother Nature's or Sudo Turf) the game still appears to be prospering at the brisk pace it set in the 1960s. Baseball may be the national pastime, but pro football has become the national obsession. It is now, according to N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin ("Pete") Rozelle, a $130 million-a-year business. There are 26 teams in the league's two conferences, and Rozelle talks of expanding to such locales as Tampa, Fla., Phoenix, Honolulu and Mexico City. Last year the N.F.L.'s regular-season attendance surpassed ten million for the first time...
...also co-starred with N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle in a less amusing real-life gambling drama set in the commissioner's office and a Manhattan pub, Bachelors III, of which Namath was part owner. Rozelle's office had determined that hoods and gamblers were hanging out in the bar, and the commissioner ordered Namath to sell his interest. Namath replied by tearfully-and very publicly-retiring from football. If he meant to bluff, it did not work. Within two months he huddled with Rozelle and emerged after a lengthy session to announce that he would give...
...defense was still against B.C., especially in the second half. They were responsible for one score from a blocked punt and set up the offense for two other scores by giving them good field position. Linemen Bill Harrigan Pete Mee, Bill O'Neill, and Andy Bender all worked well together and produced a very effective pass rush all afternoon...
Then, too, there is the reassuring presence of like-minded House members, notably "Pete" McCloskey. McCloskey, more than anyone except Riegle, is a major reference point in O Congress. With unwarranted bravado, McCloskey took his crusade against President Nixon to New Hampshire, hoping to duplicate the now mythic McCarthy venture of 1968. But the McCloskey high horse, saddled with an apathetic electorate and an empty purse, pulled up lame at the polls, dumping not Nixon but McCloskey instead. The book ends with Riegle, McCloskey, and Harvard's own Chuck Daly administering it a broken hearted coup de grace...