Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christ Wilmot, also an All-American selection, was the mainstay of the strong Crimson defense, and like messing turned in an outstanding performance in Harvard's heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Howard in Miami. He was drafted first by the New York Cosmos, who termed him "the best defenseman and the best collegiate in this crop of seniors...
...Englishman, he is expected by the Cosmos to sign a pre contract with the team because, as they said, "he is married to an American girl and we are sure he will stay here...
...longer operative, and effective new myths have not arisen to replace them. As a result, he maintains, the West is going through an agony of reorientation matched only by a period during the 4th millennium B.C., when the Sumerians first conceived the concept of a mathematically ordered cosmos and thus changed utterly man's concept of the universe around...
...Sunday on the Adelphi College field, Munro will attempt to reaclimate the squad to hard competition by sending his charges against a combination team consisting of members from the Cosmos and Hots, two of New York's best pro teams. After the game, the team will fly to Florida, spending a week practicing at St. Andrews, a prep school in Boca Raton, before checking in at the championship's headquarters in Miami's McAllister Hotel...
Similarly, Klass writes, "the President entered the Cuban missile crisis with a very precise inventory of Soviet strategic missile and bomber strength, thanks to U.S. satellite photos." At the same time, the Soviets undoubtedly used their Cosmos satellites to watch the buildup of U.S. aircraft in Florida and the American task force assembled in the Caribbean. "What role, if any, Russian satellite pictures played in convincing Kremlin leaders that the U.S. was prepared to go the limit," Klass writes, "probably is known only to a few Russian leaders...