Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pollution is already so bad that it may start a wave of mass deaths by 1975?perhaps beginning in Long Beach. He also blames pollutants for the rising number of deaths from emphysema in Southern California. Trouble may well loom for Los Angeles, which sits in a smoggy bowl that often contains only 300 ft. of air. Almost every other day, the city's public schools forbid children to exercise lest they breathe too deeply...
...Super Bowl and Kansas City's powerful defensive front four reminded National Press Club Speaker Robert Finch of what he termed his own "Frantic Four: pollution, the population explosion, the Pill and pesticides." The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare continued: "The best thing we've found so far for the population explosion is a 24-hour schedule for athletic events on TV-all year round...
...half-time show was under way at the Super Bowl, and the high-stepping Southern University band was presenting a thunderous reprise of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Then, as the announcer intoned "1,300 Englishmen died here," an irate football fan was heard to jeer, "Yeah, and one Greek...
Baffling Defense. As the players get bigger and the game becomes ever more complex, it should have been no surprise that the biggest and most complex team of all would eventually win the Super Bowl. The Chiefs' defensive front four, led by 270-lb. Aaron Brown, is the heaviest in football; their line backers are a muscular trio of marauders. Along with all that muscle goes Coach Stram's baffling, shifting "triple stack" defense. "With our wide variety of alignments," says Coach Stram, "we create a recognition problem for the offense. Any time we can make a team...
...more games over the decade than any other team in the league. But Stram's abilities have long been suspect because Kansas City has often seemed to be one of those talent-laden teams that always lose the big game. The major disappointment came in the first Super Bowl in 1967, when Green Bay trounced the Chiefs 35-10. Since then, Stram has concentrated on building up his defense, choosing carefully in the draft, trading furiously offseason. The result is the biggest, fastest, most feared defense in the game...