Word: dad
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...puts it, Manley grew up in an atmosphere of politics and art (his English-born mother is a sculptor). After service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II, he studied at the London School of Economics, then went to work for the BBC. His heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly into the technological...
...Gomez, Early Wynn and Buck Leonard, it came time for the award to Josh Gibson, the greatest batter in the Negro leagues. Gibson died in 1947, but Josh Gibson Jr. was on hand to receive the plaque: "I want to say a personal word to my father: Wake up, Dad, you just made...
...mere thought of holding such an august office sets Jones to trembling. "How are you, Dad?" inquires his daughter (Janet MacLachlan). "Nuuummmb," Jones replies, drawing the word out of his mouth as if it were a piece of bubble gum. His militant daughter regards him as little better than a token black, a mild-mannered professor willing to tap-dance to the white man's tune. Everyone else around Washington has more or less the same impression...
...PLAYBOY FOR FATHER'S DAY, and at first glance it looked like another Bunnyland promotion. But the full-page New York Times ad was paid for by up-and-coming Penthouse, Playboy's rival, and it went on to counsel, "Your Dad grew up in the Playboy generation." Thus the old fellow simply cannot handle Penthouse. Claimed the ad: "More than 95% of Penthouse readers are under 35." Not quite. Actually the figure is 87%, but the survey did show that 95% of Penthouse's male readers are between 18 and 34. For Playboy, the equivalent figure...
...Green Indians broke a 13-13 tie with a 46 yard field goal on the last play of the game. Dartmouth's kicker, Jim Perry, who was to repeat his last-second heroics a week later against Yale, told The Record American after the game, "I did it for Dad...