Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have seemed to a sports fan who tried to keep up with the dizzying athletic kaleidoscope on the TV screen last week. Split vision, in fact, is almost a requirement these days for following all the bouncing balls of big-time sports. With leagues merging and teams multiplying like so many amoebae, games that once were seasonal are now practically year-round affairs. Pro basketball teams alone, whose number has grown from ten to 27 in the past five years, will play nearly 1,300 games in a seemingly endless season that stretches from September well into May. After...
Musically the best song on the album is "How Do You Sleep?." John's attack on his ex-Beatle buddy Paul. Featuring great lead guitar by George, it is the perfect thing to listen to while you burn all your old fan photos and McCartney albums...
...bankers generally supported the President's actions. Said A.W. ("Tom") Clausen, president of the Bank of America: "We believe his program will begin to make possible an orderly transition out of the freeze." With liberal use of metaphor, Dow Chemical Chairman Carl Gerstacker responded in terms that Sports Fan Nixon understands best: "The President has hit another home run in the fight against inflation." Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lynn Townsend voiced the hope that the Price Commission will allow some increases on '72 models, which came out during the freeze. Said he: "We price only once a year, and the freeze...
...seven-nation good-will tour of Europe in Denmark. Then it was Wednesday, and that must have been Belgium, where Hirohito signed the Livre d'Or at the unknown soldier's monument in Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight, shy, 70-year...
...mediocre but interesting ball club to a bad but uninteresting one (they are currently 33 games out of first place in the league's Eastern Division), home attendance dropped from 824,789 last year to 631,933 so far this season. Short did nothing to help stir fan interest when he greatly increased ticket prices to a top of $6, the highest in the league...