Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRAY FOR RHODESIA implores a bumper sticker seen on many cars in Salisbury these days. Signs in public places warn against loose talk that might jeopardize security. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers...
...seen the film made from his book, insisting that it cannot be "truly good until they've made good with me." Still, it caused him some anguish to watch the Oscars being raked in. "I really love the movies," he says. "When they can be turned around to break your heart like this, well, it's like something that you never thought would happen...
...Arlen, 75, romantic leading man who soared to stardom as a World War I aviator in Wings, a 1927 spectacular that won the first Oscar; of emphysema; in North Hollywood. Arlen appeared in some 250 films in a 50-year career that he claimed began with an unusual lucky break-a broken leg, incurred on the Paramount lot, where he was a motorbike-riding messenger boy. Sympathy brought recognition and a chance...
...Quakers, leaders in the EIBL with a 4-0 mark, did not have to break out their big bats in building up the lopsided early bulge. Crimson pitcher Jamie Werly dug his own grave with a slew of walks and wild pitches sandwiched around a few Pennsylvania hits, as Harvard dropped its first league game of the season...
Harvard was two men down as the quarter ended but Bill MacKenzie scored on a fast break to cut the lead to 5-2. Early in the second quarter, Bobby Mellen scored off Steve Martin's 13th assist of the season to bring the Crimson even closer, but that was the end of the suspense...