Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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CENTER. Dave Thompson, Clemson, 6 ft. 4 in., 263 lbs. Big college centers are so hard to find that the pros often pick another interior lineman to fill the post. This year is no exception. Thompson, who played center in his junior year, moved over to offensive guard this season while filling in at center on punts and place kicks. As one observer put it: "He's so big he can stand straight up after centering the ball and become a screen for the quarterback...
With five players pushing and shoving at Messing and the ball, the referee did not call a push and Brown eventually muscled the ball across the goal-line. Lee Thompson got credit for the goal...
...resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...appointment with a job applicant. He does all his own interviewing and hiring. When he took over in March, 1962, there were no blacks on the force. Today, 11 of the 73 men are black. Of the 13 sergeants, there are black. Another black, Lieutenant Theodore Thompson, does plainclothes work and is the number three man on the force...
...weeks ago, under the interrogation of Harvard Lt. Thompson, a trespasser caught in Lowell House named members of a suspected ring of thieves. Boston and Cambridge police proceeded to make the appropriate arrests and have already recovered thousands of dollars worth of property stolen from Harvard Houses...