Word: troy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much more convincing that her heavenly counterpart that it's easy to figure out why this Faustus opts for hell. Jenny Marre is enticing in several cameo roles--she plays everyone from Belzebub to a lisping, pregnant duchess--but she's a bit too pudgy as Helen of Troy...
...more aware of this dilemma than the candidate. He proclaims his ability to draw conservative blue collar votes as well as liberal ones, though this is yet to be tested. "He's George Wallace without racism," says Frosty Troy, editor of the weekly Oklahoma Observer. With his paunch and pendulous second chin, his hair parted down the middle, gravy stains on his tie, a beer bottle or a container of coffee in one hand and a badly chewed but unlighted cigar in the other, Harris can hardly be mistaken for a limousine liberal. "The difference between me and McGovern...
...when the world ends, inhuman enough for the J. Edgar Hoover Center in Washington to look like a Taos adobe beside them. With that, on a cold day when the windows are bubbled shut tight, and the army convoys from Camp Drum are holding up traffic way ahead at Troy, and the Savarin coffee tastes like boiled muzak, and you don't leave the highway once for eight hours...it feels good to get home...
ENDS. Leroy Selmon, Oklahoma, 6 ft. 3 in., 256 lbs.; and Troy Archer, Col orado, 6 ft. 3 in., 219 lbs. Selmon, one of the most tantalizing prospects in the draft, is from a family of Oklahoma line men (Brother Lucious played guard two years ago, and Brother Dewey plays it now). Selmon's ability to shed blockers and diagnose plays is not his only at traction. "You can say all the clever things you want," says one scout, "but with Leroy it boils down to one thing...
...million debt, opening the gate to anyone who can afford entrance. Government officials are confident that the "Mexicanized" enterprise will pay its way, and have promised to split the profits-51% for the ministry of tourism and 49% for the man whose initials are still on the gate: Troy V. Post...