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Restic insists that Cuccia remains in the running for quarterback, but consistent rumors have the Angeleno in the line-up even if the signal-caller slot is filled. "If we see a place for Ron in another director (besides quarterback), we'll use him," Restic says, adding, "We want to get the best players out there on the field and Ron is very talented." So look for Cuccia at flanker or end, and remember how much Restic loves those passrun options and reverses...
...packed into one or two suitcases. Its timing was obviously calculated to wreak maximum carnage: a Saturday morning, the first rush of the August vacation exodus, when the station was packed with an estimated 10,000 people scurrying for tickets and trains. Shortly after the blast, an anonymous telephone caller claimed that the bomb had been planted by a neo-Fascist group called the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (N.A.R.). One possible motive for the outrage: it had been announced earlier in the day that four right-wing terrorists had been indicted for the 1974 bombing of a train outside Bologna that...
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was ready to go off on a dinner date with Senator Paul Laxalt when the telephone rang in his Plaza suite. The caller was William Casey, Reagan's campaign director. Could Kissinger come over to Casey's rooms in the Plaza? When he got there, he was welcomed by Casey, Reagan Aide Michael Deaver and Edwin Meese, Reagan's chief of staff. Quite succinctly, Meese explained that Reagan very much wanted Ford on the ticket and asked if Kissinger would help persuade Ford to consider running. In fact, Meese noted, time...
...chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to identify himself," says Mair. "He looked at me, saw my uniform and my shotgun, and said, 'Howard Buddy Jacobson...
...belong to certain sports. The official starter has always intoned the imperative: "Gentlemen, start your engines." Umpires immemorially have shouted: "Play ball!" Runners have forever been instructed: "On your mark, set, go!" But when the horses reached the starting gate for the 112th running of the Belmont Stakes, Track Caller Marshall Cassidy could have been forgiven if he were tempted to mix phrases...