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Screenplay by DENNE BART PETITCLERC
...American professional athletics is the brotherhood of championship quarterbacks. Its circle is limited, and members tend to be intolerant, even contemptuous, of nonmembers, no matter what their claims to greatness. Bobby Layne, the roistering old Lion, quarterbacked teams that won championships in the N.F.L. He belongs. So do Bart Starr, who won five, Johnny Unitas, Norm Van Brocklin and Joe Namath. Francis Asbury Tarkenton, 36, is not a member. Though he has won three conference championship games, Tarkenton...
...Centauri, as it was about four years ago; and some of the farther galaxies as they looked billions of years ago. Peering into the heavens then is like looking back into time, and some of the stars that astronomers see may no longer exist. Truly, as André Schwarz-Bart wrote in The Last of the Just: "Our eyes register the light of dead stars...
...Bear's players, wearing the red jersey means being part of a tradition that reaches back to Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Lee Roy Jordan and Joe Namath. Says Defensive Back Andy Gothard: "Football at Alabama is earthly heaven." For the majority of students, the equation seems simple: by their football you shall know them. Cleo Thomas, Alabama's first black student-body president, says: "A national identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing...
...recession wiped out orders just when the company desperately needed an influx of new business to cover development costs (its high sales came from longstanding orders). In addition, Rohr got into disputes with customers over the quality of those vehicles it did sell. San Francisco's BART is suing Rohr and 17 other companies for $145 million, alleging poor performance of 450 cars, and disagreements are developing with Washington's Metro over more than 70 cars delivered to that new subway system (out of 300 ordered...