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Riggins, the mythic figure on the team, customarily dresses as though he lives in a duckblind, but he took off his camouflage when the linebackers put theirs on. The only member in his club (34-year-old running backs who get stronger as they go), Riggins is an honorary Hog but avoids the Fun Bunch. His touchdown spike is the most distinctive in the game: he flips the ball to the nearest official. The ceremony has been performed 29 times this season...
Though Riggins came to Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke's casual pre-game party in white tie and tails, twirling a cane, he customarily dresses like someone who resides in a duckblind. "Riggo makes his own path in life," Washington Coach Joe Gibbs says, off tackle usually. For five seasons starting in 1971, Riggins was a member of the New York Jets and considered a bit strange even in New York City. Over money, he sat out the 1980 season in Washington. "I'm bored, I'm broke and I'm back," Riggins announced when...
...experience was less than bucolic for the 77 reporters and cameramen who traipsed to Camp David to cover the presidential Cabinet shuffles. Camp David's grounds are off limits to the press, who were herded by Marine guards and concertina wire into a sapling-fenced enclosure called "the duckblind" or farther away in an overcrowded press trailer. After newspapers published pictures similar to this one of reporters shivering under a plastic sheet in a chilly rain to phone in their stories, a press aide had more telephones installed in the trailer. Still, there were no chairs, no coffee...
Bought by the U. S. Biological Survey for a wildfowl refuge were 40,000 acres at the Mississippi's mouth, onetime hunting preserve of the late Joseph Leiter. There the Chicago wheat speculator's yacht Emmie sank, there his remaining eye was injured in a duckblind, there his Son Joseph Jr. was killed in a hunting accident and there he caught the cold which went into pneumonia and ended his life...
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