Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's the George Scott who suffered through strings of strikeouts last summer, who listened to mob howls of "Boooooomer" fade to flat, drunken curses: "Fat nigger." And it's the Boomer who didn't want to talk about racism...
Despite Administration efforts to picture the contract as a victory for restraint, the Teamsters' fat settlement could whet the appetite of other unions in this year of heavy labor bargaining. The United Rubber Workers' contracts expire this weekend, and, says Union President Peter Bommarito, "Our settlement will have to go over the guidelines...
...after the fourth and 12-2 after the top of the sixth, the Crimson simply could not muster the offense to stage a miracle comeback. Columbia's southpaw Tom Whelan, a lefthander with an 0-5 record, a 7.46 ERA and an array of pitches that weren't fat, but chronically obese, closed down the Crimson attack until a pitifully late rally in the bottom of the seventh pushed across three runs...
...Heartbreak Hill a fat man stood on a truck with a microphone blasting away. "You have just climbed 90 feet and it's all downhill from here--less than five miles to go." But those last few miles are eternal. Struggling down Commonwealth Avenue in a daze, the Green Line trolley beckons temptingly...
...networks to present serious public affairs programs on their own. They would be saying, as Murrow put it: "This is a tiny tithe, just a little bit of our profits . . . to indicate our belief in the importance of ideas." Murrow saw trouble "unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us." Murrow that night was concerned, gloomy, a little shrill. He said he wasn't proposing to make television a 27-inch wailing wall, but his message sounded a bit like that...