Word: wes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When he came out of Florida State in 1969, basketball afficianados laughed at the idea that this relatively unheralded project of Red Auerbach could bang heads with the Kareem Abdul-Jabbars, Wilt Chamberlains, and Wes Unselds patrolling the keys and live to tell about it. Yet one of the predominant images of pro basketball in the early '70s became that of a grimacing, snarling, Cowens ripping down a rebound as sweat poured down his face and shook off his hair. The league soon respected Cowens, but as much more than that hated athletic stalwart, the all-hustle, no-talent scrapper...
...small town America, yet it can be found. Writer Lael Wertenbaker, 71, has discovered just that in Nelson, N.H. (pop. 550). She likes Nelson for many reasons, including the fact that "in winter people know who's pregnant, and the snow-plow gets there first." U.S. Representative Wes Watkins of Ada, Okla. (pop. 17,000), chairman of the Rural Caucus, is not being merely windy when he says, "People in small towns are not numbers...
...legal framework for this issue began to take its modern form in 1953. New York Giants Catcher Wes Westrum had signed contracts giving two rival bubble-gum firms exclusive rights to put him on their baseball cards. The companies took their fight to court, where a federal judge recognized the "right of publicity," entitling celebrities to a cut of the profits rung up by merchandise bearing their likenesses...
...best performance), his bride-to-be, soon after he arrives in town. Before long they are acting out a parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved in with him. Bud immediately takes up with Pam (Madolyn Smith), a rich man's bored daughter who likes...