Word: ara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lucky thing about the Notre Dame football coach, Ara Parseghian, wrote a Midwest sports columnist last week, was that he hadn't made the cover of TIME. This wry little note took public notice of a myth that is a continuing topic of conversation among journalists -particularly sportswriters. It is known as the TIME cover jinx...
...knows just how the myth got started, but it has persisted for 30 years. Any sports figure who gets on the cover of TIME, goes the mythology, is doomed to defeat-in a phrase, has had it. TIME Subscriber Ara Parseghian saw that jinx note in the sports column while Correspondent Marsh Clark was interviewing him for this week's cover. He smiled rather bravely and allowed that he wasn't worried. How ever, while there is no computerized or even uncomputerized evidence to support the myth, it can be said that someone almost always loses in sports...
Look who lost the big football game of the season. None other than Michigan State Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty, who has had only one losing season since 1954, who hadn't lost to Notre Dame since that year and who had never lost a game to Ara Parseghian. Duffy Daugherty was on the cover of TIME, Oct. 8, 1956. Jinxed...
...Area Redevelopment Administration has invested more than $2,500,000 in helping to solve the unemployment problem in Hazleton. Over $150,000 of this amount was a grant, the balance loans. Said Dr. Dessen, "ARA hits Hazleton like a breath of spring." All praise to the hardworking, intelligent community leaders who have helped Hazleton back to economic stability. But let's not forget that their work could not have been accomplished without considerable aid from the state of Pennsylvania and the Federal Government. Which is as it should be. WILLIAM L. BATT JR. Administrator...
...Wheeling, W. Va., the ARA granted a $272,000 loan to build a rifle plant after the Small Business Administration refused to give the loan. The company failed to get a contract, and the plant stands empty...