Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Partly as a result, Willwerth approached this week's story "expecting quite a bit." His first meeting with Springsteen began after midnight in an Italian restaurant on Manhattan's East Side. The two then drove down the New Jersey Turnpike to the singer's seaside bungalow. Springsteen, who is wary of journalists and normally reticent, began to open up during the ride. "Somehow the driving seemed to release something," Willwerth reports. "We talked about his family, his music, his early bar-hopping band days, the fame that is catching up with him for good and bad." Interrupted...
...balk on his pick-off move to first base, the wily pitcher more than made up for it by tossing a five-hit shutout. Twisting and turning on the mound like a particularly well-fed cobra, the portly Tiant mesmerized the Reds with his dizzying motion, then drove them to desperation with an improbable assortment of pitches and speeds, including a rainbow curve that seemed to take 30 seconds to reach the plate. As if his pitching were not enough, he also produced a hit-and some madcap base running that climaxed when, on the first pass, he missed home...
...regatta of fun and frivolity, a touch of that old time rowing which seemed to set just fine with everyone. Chuck Clifford, UNebraska coxswain, summed it up best, "Man we drove 38 hours to get here and today was just the greatest...
...other clash, Dartmouth's junior varsity drove 65 yards on its initial possession for the first period's only scoring. Aided by a 33--yard pass-interference call against Harvard, Dartmouth tallied on a 12-yard jaunt by Frank Wilson...
Hoffa's style resonates--Overdrive magazine reports that 83 per cent of the truckers responding to a poll favored Hoffa's return to the Teamsters' general presidency. His rough fidelity is returned in kind: while in prison, truckers making deliveries to the Lewisburg pen drove past his cell window and shouted manly encouragement. Hoffa's other obsession--the crusade against Frank Fitzsimmons, his handpicked successor as Teamsters' head--is not only the product of a power-mad boss, but the outraged sense of a regular guy whose wife has been raped by his best friend...