Word: fans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watched fights instead and became a boxing fan, or more specifically, a Muhammad Ali fan. And not just any Ali fan--but one who got genuinely excited about his bouts with the likes of Al "Blue" Lewis and Jean Pierre Coopman (surely you remember the Lion of Flanders). For me Ali always symbolized the best in boxing--the dexterity, grace and mental toughness it takes to be a great fighter. Ali also took a punch better than anyone in the history of the sport (unless you count George Chuvalo, who nobody does...
...course, there are other factors. I do not think that the mullahs were triggered by the Soviet Union. However, some trained agitators probably helped fan the flames that already existed even there. No doubt there existed objective reasons for discontent, but the margin between unrest and revolution came at least in part from the outside...
...overseas subsidiary, Hilton International, was sold to Trans World Airlines in 1967.) Though Hilton's son Barren, 51, took over as chief executive more than a decade ago, Papa kept the title of chairman and continued to turn up daily at his Beverly Hills office to answer fan mail and assist charities. Besides Barron, another son, Eric, and 14 grandchildren, Hilton is survived by his third wife, Mary Frances, 63, a former United Airlines saleswoman he married two years...
Despite his best work, however, the ratings were mediocre, and Star Trek was canceled after three years. The Trekkie phenomenon did not begin until the series went into syndication, and almost a decade later it shows no signs of abating. A Star Trek directory lists 19 pages of fan clubs, including some whose only members are grandmothers and others that concern themselves with the show's most minor characters, such as Mr. Spock's bride, who has had all of five lines. More than 50 books, not counting graduate theses, have been written, and a Detroit station...
...since I lived near New York during the Orr Era, a different goal of his is frozen in my mind, rather painfully in fact. Then a Ranger fan (the Islanders didn't exist yet), I was incredibly psyched on the evening of May 11, 1972 for game six of the Cup finals between Boston and New York. Though the Bruins led the series three games to two, the blueshirts had two nights earlier grabbed a tight contest on Boston ice and hopes were high that the New Yorkers could return the series to Beantown in search of their first...