Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington suffered multiple losses, while New England and St. Louis, those longtime door mats, tripped everyone in sight. Then, midway through the schedule, just as the experts were beginning to believe in the upstarts, the old guard reasserted itself, and a new set of misfits including Houston and Cleveland battered the betting line with upsets. By last week the N.F.L. was a bookie's nightmare; a platoon of likely and unlikely teams battled for play-off berths...
...tough, unyielding defense. Pittsburgh, the Central Division favorites, have been just as stubborn on defense, but the Steelers' offense has sagged, and they now find themselves in a tight battle with the Cincinnati Bengals. Though all but out of the running, the nettlesome Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns both promise to torment the leaders in future weeks...
...sensibly undertook the business of being a politician. He ran a citizens' committee for Democratic Governor John Gilligan, chaired an environmental task force, and ate countless dinners of rubber chicken on the state political circuit. This year he beat Metzenbaum in the primary, and last week he defeated Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, 64% to 31%. Glenn leaves little doubt of his interest in holding a higher office or of his desire to get on the Senate Interior Committee so that he can work on national energy policy...
...case had reached Battisti's federal court in Cleveland through a complex series of events. First an Ohio grand jury refused to indict any Guardsman for the 13-second volley of shots fired into a crowd during a rally to protest the 1970 U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Then Attorney General John Mitchell refused to bring any federal charges. But parents, survivors and sympathizers would not accept that result. Last year Attorney General Elliot Richardson was persuaded to renew the investigation. This time a federal grand jury charged eight of the Guardsmen with willfully violating the victims' civil rights...
...astronomy? Get together with other unemployed astronomers and build yourselves an observatory. Implausible as that last exercise in self-reliance may sound, just such a project is in the works a mile high in California's coastal mountains. There, a band of six young astronomers, all graduates of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, are building what they avidly hope will become a major independent observatory...