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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last time I checked up on Pete, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien had just barred him from conversing with all Cavalier employees. Stepien resorted to such measures after Franklin ridiculed the new team fight song, comparing it to a beer-hall polka. After the edict, Franklin took time off from his regular "Pigskin Pete" feature to call Stepien a "pathological liar" and threaten court action. And you're still listening to Clif and Claf...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Give Houk a Chance | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...Brothers fear that like some sort of ghoulish Star Trek villain MIT will snatch them from behind and suck all of the life juices from their bodies. If they don't stay armed, beer mug in one hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saturday Night The Brothers Don't Do No Tooling | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

American students, however, "are always having parties, drinking beer, and chasing girls," Bing says, adding that there are few parties at Chinese colleges like the Foreign Language Institute, which he attended for more than two years before coming here. "We were used to working on weekends to prepare for next week's exams," he recalls...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: A Great Leap Westward | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

When London's West Ham United lost 3-1 to Madrid's Castilla last month, the English soccer team's unruly fans urinated and spat on Spanish supporters, pelted the field with beer cans and fought with local police. To show that it would no longer put up with such antics, which are fast becoming a fixture of soccer matches, the European Football Union levied the penultimate penalty: West Ham would have to play its home game to an empty house. Last week the two teams played an evening match before a genteel throng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Silent Night | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...sales convention that had the theme "It's all a percentage game." Nestlé last spring commissioned a tie in honor of the 50th birthday of the chocolate-chip cookie. Anheuser-Busch has no fewer than a dozen ties celebrating the firm's various brands of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Rage for Ties That Bind | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

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