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Steeler fans loved TIME'S story, but it tends to leave the impression that they are a violent lot who would blitz their grandmothers to win. They could have cut Namath in half in the Steeler-Jet game but knew they were good enough to win without inflicting further damage on a once great quarterback...
...fact is that New York's "scare tactics" had some effect. A nationwide publicity blitz orchestrated by New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey turned the country at least part way around on the issue. New Yorkers hammered away at the theme that if the city fell into default, others would soon accompany it. Yonkers, N.Y., teetered on the brink of default last week, only to be rescued at the last moment by a $25 million infusion of bank loans and state aid. Massachusetts, too, seemed headed for default until it managed to balance its $3 billion budget...
...high school," quarterback Kubacki said Tuesday, "if I saw a blitz coming, I'd run. But this year, it's no sweat. Why? Because I have such confidence in our offensive line...
...Blitz. In detailing the charges, the Justice Department named seven AMREP officers and directors, including Chairman Irving Blum, 73, President Howard Friedman, 50, his brother Daniel, 40, and Chester Carity, 50, an AMREP executive vice president. In response, the indicted firm has launched a p.r. blitz protesting its innocence. AMREP officials complain that the charges are "immoral and unjust." They insist that they have spent more than $34 million improving the land...
Courtney is not trying to appeal to the student population of Cambridge. "A student blitz on election day is not my idea of reform," he said. He feels that was possibly because he knows Harvard students so well, having worked four years in the Winthrop House dining hall...