Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This season, transferred to the American Football Conference in the newly reorganized N.F.L., the Colts have had to live with the charge that they sneaked into the playoffs only because they were in the league's weakest division. Even hometown fans seem unimpressed; when the Colts defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 17-0 in the A.F.C. divisional playoff game two weeks ago, there were more than 5,000 empty seats in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Such indignities are not taken lightly by the team. Recalling the loss to the Jets, Center Bill Curry moans: "If I live...
Everyone knows what prisons are supposed to do: cure criminals. Way back in 1870, the nation's leading prison officials met in Cincinnati and carved 22 principles that became the bible of their craft. "Reformation," they declared, "not vindictive suffering, should be the purpose of the penal treatment of prisoners." Today, every warden in the U.S. endorses the ideal of rehabilitation. Every penologist extols "individualized treatment" to cure each inmate's hangups and return society's misfits to crime-free lives. But the rhetoric is so far from reality that perhaps 40% of all released inmates (75% in some areas...
...Leon Goldman, a University of Cincinnati dermatologist, reports that doctors can say for certain only that warts are produced by a polyoma virus, a highly contagious carrier. According to Goldman's 20-year study, 60% of all warts are spread between family members; others are contracted in locker rooms, swimming pools and washrooms. He urges people with warts to cover them in order to prevent contagion. Neither Goldman nor his colleagues have found a satisfactory cure...
Judy Montgomery, 21, is a major in political science at the University of Cincinnati. She lives in the exclusive suburban area of Indian Hill with her parents and her son Nicky, 16 months. She became pregnant at 19 but did not want to get married. "I think having a mother and a father are important for a child, but Nicky can be raised so he isn't scarred. There are now substitutes in society that will allow him to grow up fatherless. I have no feeling of guilt. My only real hassle is with guys I meet who are interested...
...Knoxville,Tenn.,free buses with red-suited drivers carry shoppers from free parking lots to downtown department stores, five blocks away. In Cincinnati, retailers offer "breakfast with Santa" and let kiddies choose between a black St. Nick and a white one. To seduce the shoppers, stores across the U.S. are resorting to unprecedented gimmicks and highly unusual pre-Christmas sales on everything from housewares to Teddy bears...