Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale marching band, which like its counterpart at Harvard, has made a practice of lacing its halftime performances with off-color humor, has been told by the university that it must clean up its act when appearing in the Yale Bowl or stay at home...
...Suburbs. You'll put a damper, for a short while, on all her fun. Because it's going to mean a lot for her, a lot more busy time, a lot more killing time over tea and tennis and telephone talk. Not that King's money-making will bowl her over -- she's probably got her own bank account. But the sexual victory should clinch a cheer straight from her heart. "It's the principle of the thing" -- listen to her next evening over martinis with her husband -- "that counts." And there will be Libber bantering over dinner like...
...franchise" for that particular area code. Like every other aspect of his life, sex seems to be a game with Riggs; one can almost picture him inviting a woman to join in amorous combat, two out of three falls, with an anvil tied to his waist and a goldfish bowl on his head...
Riggs means to enjoy every moment of his second childhood, grabbing every dollar and goody within reach. He fantasies that it will go on and on. "After Billie Jean," he says, "it'll be hot-and-cold running women, it'll be the Super Bowl or Rose Bowl of tennis, the Riggs spectacular once a year-the best woman player of the year, that's the one who'll have to play Bobby Riggs." He has also raved about crashing the Virginia Slims tour ("How will they keep me out? Do they want to be called...
Adjoining the newsroom set familiar to 14 million nightly viewers, Cronkite's small office is a glass-walled goldfish bowl in a sea of activity. Behind his desk rest several joking tributes, including two framed New Yorker cartoons (caption on one showing a man avidly facing his TV set: "OK, Cronkite, lay it on me"). Tanned, younger looking than he seems on the tube, Cronkite lounges in his chair and talks about forthcoming TV technology...