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...From here on out," Mrs. Penny Tweedy remarked a few days before the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, "it's Turns and Rolaids." There seemed to be no grounds for nervous indigestion. After all, Tweedy's three-year-old colt Secretariat was heavily favored to win the Wood as a prelude to collecting the roses at the Kentucky Derby this week. But Secretariat faltered inexplicably and finished a mediocre third behind Angle Light and Sham. Suddenly this Saturday's contest at Churchill Downs shapes up as more of a horse race than the smart money had previously...
Five minutes after the bungled attack on the ambassador's residence, the other five Palestinians made an equally inept attempt to blow up an empty Israeli Viscount airliner at Nicosia airport. They arrived in a blue Dodge Colt and a Land-Rover. As the Colt headed for the tarmac, it crashed into a gatepost. One of its two occupants fled through a field, but the other attacked a police guard by hitting him on the head with a hand grenade. The impact of the blow dislodged the grenade pin; the young guerrilla, afraid that he was going to blow...
...Dolphins' principal owner, a fast-talking attorney named Joe Robbie tried to lure Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant from the University of Alabama. Bear declined, so Robbie then turned to Shula, who had twice been named N.F.L. Coach of the Year during seven successful seasons with the Baltimore Colts. Shula won a lifetime enemy by bolting a five-year contract with Colt Owner Carroll Rosenbloom (who this year swapped his downsliding Colts for the Los Angeles Rams) to snap at the hook Robbie had baited with part ownership. Rosenbloom filed a "tampering" charge with the office of N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin...
...journeyman whom Shula had picked up from Baltimore last April for the $100 waiver price. "I happen to have a good memory," says Shula crisply. "I remember what Earl did for me in 1968 when John Unitas was out all season." What Morrall did then was take over the Colt reins, guide the team to the Super Bowl and get himself named N.F.L. Player of the Year. Once again, Morrall has risen to the task. In the first seven games after replacing Griese, he completed 56 of 99 tosses (including seven for touchdowns...
Veteran Baltimore Colt QB John Unitas said that he would not make a token appearance in Sunday's National Football League game against the Buffalo Bills, in the Colts last home game of the season and perhaps Unitas's last home appearance of his 17-year career, Unitas said. "They (the fans) have seen me for 17 years. They know what I can able...