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...have a history of taking tailbacks and sending them home with their tails between their legs," Clemens said. This isn't idle talk; Clemens has stopped Larry Csonka, Tony Dorsett, Floyd Little and Chuck Muncie...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Tailbacks Get No Clemens-y | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...that the wave has passed, Phillips is having a fine time in New Orleans, employing rickety old Oiler Quarterback Ken Stabler joyfully in the process, while Houston contemplates 15 losses straight. The second Oiler coach since Phillips, Chuck Studley, says bafflingly, "We're certainly still in a position to go either way." Since Studley has been in charge scarcely three weeks and is yet too new to boo, the Houston Astrodome patrons have been brutalizing Quarterback Gifford Nielsen. They prefer Oliver Luck, Nielsen's wonderfully named understudy. Few players on any football team are as highly regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bootlegs and Saddles | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...Brian White 3 25 58 2.3 22 0 Tim McGugan 6 18 57 3.2 12 0 John O'Brien 7 7 49 7.0 21 1 Will Saleeby 7 8 23 3.0 12 1 Paul Sharon 1 7 18 2.6 6 0 Brian Cooke 6 4 15 3.8 6 0 Chuck Colombo 7 25 10 0.4 12 0 Jim Villanueva 7 1 5 5.0 5 0 Jim Fadule 6 1 0 0.0 0 0 Passing Leaders Player G Cpt/Att Pct Yds Int TD Greg Gizzi 3 35/57 614 444 1 2 Chuck Colombo 7 32/66 489 340 7 2 Brian White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIVIDUAL RECORDS | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...star witness before the House Budget Committee was Franklin ("Chuck") Spinney, the dogged Defense Department analyst who testified last February that weapon costs were being seriously underestimated and that the skyrocketing prices of sophisticated systems threatened to explode the military budget. At the time, the Pentagon protested that the whistle-blowing bureaucrat had ignored the effects of Reagan's cost-control initiatives. Budget Committee Chairman James R. Jones of Oklahoma consequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling over Bottom Lines | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...guinea pigs are not true leads in the field. When recruiters go to Edwards Air Force Base to lure the flyers into becoming astronauts types who can't even get the respect of the waitress at Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club. When they approach the ringleader, Chuck Yeager, he laughs and calls it work for a lab animal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Forgotten One | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

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