Word: all-stars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). The New York Jets meet the best of last season's collegiate seniors at Soldier Field in Chicago...
...President was the soul of middle America when he greeted the astronauts. Peering through the glass window of the quarantine van, he cried: "Gee, you look great!" He inquired whether they knew the results of the All-Star game. He chatted on and on, with somewhat feeble witticisms about asking the astronauts' wives for a date (coyly revealing that he really meant a state dinner). While there was a certain unpretentious charm to it all, it was also an awkward performance, and its triviality was strongly at odds with the solemnity of what had been accomplished. To describe...
...Motor Hotel. There, 25 Apollo contractors kicked in a cool $20,000 for a more sedate bash featuring pâté de fois gras canapés, massive ice carvings (the handsome, irrelevant figures of an antelope, a pumpkin and two dolphins) atop the serving tables, and an all-star guest list of 2,000, including Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the center, was there, as were Christopher Columbus Kraft and 23 of the 48 active astronauts. Said one guest, as Astronaut Rusty Schweickart walked by: "I don't know...
...single event better illustrated the pre-eminence of the pitcher throughout the 1968 baseball season than the July All-Star game. The best batsmen in both leagues struck out 20 times and collected only eight hits as the National League eked out a soporific 1-0 victory. One disgusted spectator called the game "the biggest bore of my life...
...weeks ahead of the pace set by Ruth and Roger Maris in the years of their record performances (60 in 155 games for Ruth in 1927; 61 over an expanded 163-game schedule for Maris in 1961). Both were solid American League choices for this week's All-Star game...