Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team's wide receivers include Issac Curtis, who an All-Pro this season, along with Charley Jointer and Chip Meyers, a duo that caught about 50 passes between them. Punter Dave Green finished third in the conference with a 41-yard average...
President Ford's panel to investigate the CIA's involvement in illegal domestic spying is more "blue chip" than "blue ribbon...
...Henry Kissingers or Valerie Perrines of this world. The Robertson laurels go to "Manchester Jack," the first lion tamer (1835); M. Jolly-Bellin, first dry cleaner (1849); William Kemmler, first man to die in the electric chair (1890), and the late great George Crum, inventor of the first potato chip (1853). Surrounding these immortals is a pantheon of some 6,000 achievers and achievements, each one a monument to ingenuity or perversity. En masse, they provide the best argument settler since the first dictionary (Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, 1604). After The Book of Firsts, there should be no further...
...Died. Richard Whitney, 86, Harvard-educated, Depression-era Stock Exchange president and embezzler; in Far Hills, N.J. By wandering the floor of the exchange on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929, as the representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade...
...only event in which the Engineers seriously challenged Harvard was the epee. With MIT holding a 4-2 edge, Crimson strongman John Hirschfeld squared off against MIT's Chip Farley...