Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming off a depressing 37-0 loss to formidable Navy last Saturday, today's morale-booster could improve the Crimson's season record...
...NASA and the aerospace industry, the announcement packed all the wallop of a Saturn booster at liftoff. After much backstage deliberation, President Nixon last week ordered the space agency to proceed with its long-planned space shuttle. To be built at a cost of at least $5.5 billion over the next six years, the system will be designed to transport at least a dozen passengers and cargo between orbiting space stations and the earth. The vehicle is to be a hybrid that looks something like a jet fighter, takes off like a rocket and lands like an ordinary plane...
A.F.C. play-off victory over the World Champion Baltimore Colts. In Dallas, no less a booster than Lyndon Baines Johnson moseyed into town, cheered the Cowboys' N.F.C. play-off win over the San Francisco 49ers, roamed the locker room shaking hands, and drawled: "They wouldn't let us back on the range if you didn...
Largely, Soledad Brother is the log of that descent. It catches Jacks in mid-flight in June of 1964. He was still in San Quentin then, but the first letter of the book reveals that already he was vastly different from the aimless small-time booster California had flushed into its prisons three years before. He writes to his mother...
...confession for some personal gain. Such is often the case when someone under suspicion or indictment turns state's evidence and trades his fingering of others for a grant of immunity from prosecution. However, such a hope would have been improbably in Jackson's case. A small-time booster, Jackson had no information of interest to offer the state However, he did have his body to offer, or more precisely, his rights to his body. Court costs in the state of California average over $1,000 a week. By abdicating his rights to a trial by jury, Jackson would...