Word: backups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennington is unable to go. UMass coach Dick MacPherson is in the enviable position of not having to give up anything by substituting for his starter--backup Fred Kelliher has the best statistics on the team...
When confronted with policy questions, Food Services administrators usually speak in pairs. Last year interviews included C. Graham Hurlbut, director of Food Services and Frank J. Weissbecker, associate director. This year, with Hurlbut on leave in Europe, Weissbecker led the interview team with Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director, as backup...
...McInally was pressed into action last year when Stoeckel was injured and is potentially a powerful punter, but his punting suffers from the same problem as his placekicking--he lacks consistency. He is good backup, though, and can, on occasion, provide excellent kicking. Prospects for PUNTING: GOOD TO EXCELLENT...
...Pointer Sisters. Another strict Church upbringing, maybe even Baptist. Four girls whose minister father rarely let them out of the house Saturday nights. So they sang. in Church, and conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album...
...fashioning Skylab's makeshift sunshade, refused to give up. Experimenting with duplicates of tools aboard Skylab, they devised techniques for cutting, sawing and even prying off the metal. Practicing with these tools in simulated conditions of weightlessness in NASA'S big water test tank at Huntsville, Ala., Backup Astronauts Rusty Schweickart and Ed Gibson demonstrated that the implements might well work in space...