Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backfield, the Packers sorely miss the devastating running and blocking of Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor. Replacements Donny Anderson, 24, and Jim Grabowski, 23, may yet earn their $1,000,000 bonuses, but they have quite a way to go: against Minnesota, Green Bay's "Gold Dust Twins" gained only 32 yds. in 19 carries. Bart Starr is still the incomparable quarterback. But Starr has been hampered by rib injuries and a jammed thumb, served up an embarrassing nine interceptions in the first two games, and was taken out of the Atlanta game because of his injuries...
...fascinating thing about Charles O. Finley, 49, is the way he brings out the worst in other people. In the seven years that Millionaire Finley has owned the Kansas City Athletics, he has managed-accidentally or deliberately-to raise more dust than a prairie twister. Managers have violently disagreed with him, players have rebelled, fans have hanged him in effigy. Those incidents were nothing compared with the howler that hit last week when Finley's fellow American League owners voted to 1) allow him to move the Athletics to Oakland, Calif., next season, and 2) expand the league from...
Skelm's poverty is reflected in its flat, treeless landscape so characteristic of Lancashire. The air is heavy with dust and the northern wind is harsh. The town's only landmark is the beacon on one of the few hills at the city limits. Visitors are always taken to the beacon to see the fine farmlands to the south and west, the motorway to the east, and the decaying city of Wigan to the north. There is no exit or entrance to the motorway at Skelmersdale...
Died. Woody Guthrie, 55, balladeer and U.S. folk music's lead guitar for two decades; after a 13-year illness (Huntington's chorea, a rare disease of the nervous system); in Manhattan. "This train is bound for glory," sang Woody, and so was his musical cast-Dust bowl farmers seeking Pastures of Plenty, the spunky Union Maid who defied "goons and ginks and company finks," fast-living Jackhammer John, everyone traveling a hard road, but one that provided hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with...
...system lies in the phrases "contain defense" and "position responsibilities." The first describes the general philosophy of Head Coach John Yovicsin and long-time assistant Jim Lentz. The theory is simple: give up short yardage but prevent the long gain. It is the "three yards and a cloud of dust" school in reverse. As long as they give up no more than four yards a play the defenders are dong their job. Statistics show that the best teams rarely can run more than 14 plays in succession without a mistake, and poorer teams less. So Harvard is willing to give...