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...scourges of poverty, intolerance and violence. He joined the civil rights movement in the '40s, worked with Martin Luther King in the '60s, and spoke out early against South African apartheid and for Namibian independence. As an antiwar activist he won his greatest success, turning his lonely struggle to "Dump Johnson" into a mass movement. This feat drew from Robert Kennedy praise, "For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us: `... if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round...
Sports fans today switch loyalties as often as teams switch managers--opportunistically insisting that they sincerely "like Pittsburgh" even though they wouldn't go near the dump...
...miles away, Doug Fletcher watched as scrapers gnawed away at a three-story-high mount of man-made snow, scooping it up for loading into an ever moving convoy of dump trucks. One week before the Olympic Games were scheduled to open, the final yards of the cross-country courses were being blanketed. For the first time in history, man-made snow was being used for Nordic skiing. In less than a month, Fletcher's crew of 50-plus men, 30 dump trucks and 19 spreading machines had trundled through the woods around Mount Van Hoevenberg and covered...
...Crimson opened the game with spirited, if sloppy, play, using a dump-and-run offense instead of patterned passing...
...dump-and-run was not by design," coach Billy Clearly said after the game. 'The guys were a little leery of stickhandling at first, so they just dumped it in; but when we got going we played much better hockey. The passing game is our game," he added...