Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the prodding of New Hampshire Congressman James Cleveland, the two sides have settled on a compromise that should serve the state's economic interests while at the same time protecting one of its priceless treasures. Interstate 93, a major north-south route that stretches from the greater Boston area toward the Canadian border, will indeed cut through the Notch. But instead of the usual four lanes required by Washington-which picks up 90% of the tab if the highway meets federal specifications-regulations will be relaxed. To prevent the widening that would have meant filling in lakes...
Payton has not let them down. During his rookie year, no less an authority than former Cleveland Browns Fullback Jim Brown watched him run two plays and pegged him for the pinnacle. Said Brown: "Walter had the quickness and the moves and the instincts of just a great runner. He was the most impressive back that I've seen come into the league in a long time." Fred O'Connor, Chicago's backfield coach, was moved to assert: "God must have taken a chisel and said, 'I'm gonna make me a halfback...
Barnes ran a highly diversified operation. In addition to gas stations and travel agencies in the New York area, he held investments in two federally insured housing projects in Detroit and Cleveland. The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn mobster "Crazy Joey" Gallo when they were in prison together in 1965. (Barnes served five years on a narcotics conviction, which was overturned on appeal...
...understand why people keep I talking about size," Cleveland Browns Running Back Greg Pruitt complains. "Nobody ever asked Columbus how tall he was." Perhaps because, in the words of a contemporary of the Great Discoverer, Columbus was "as regards his exterior person and bodily disposition, more than middling tall." But in the behemoth world of professional football, Pruitt, at 5 ft. 9 in. and 190 Ibs., is more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed...
...list could go on, but one word sums it up: energy. In person and onscreen, Dreyfuss, short, gat-toothed and, until recently, distinctly chubby, generates enough electricity to light up a small town-Cleveland or Chicago, say. "He has an energy that just flies off the screen," says Neil Simon, who wrote The Goodbye Girl. "He doesn't fall into any of the usual acting categories. He's not a handsome-man type like Redford or a dramatic-actor type like Pacino or De Niro. Rick can do anything-and he is funnier than any of them...