Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner is an interception thrown, a lay-up missed, a touchdown pass dropped or a home run hit than the screams of a fix come pouring out from the spectators and arm-chair quarterbacks. And any bettor worth his weight can give you scores of "positive" examples of fixed games. (Call me, I've got some beauties...
Weiger now boasts that with its new product balance, Midas-International can hardly lose whether the economy goes up or down. If times are hard, he says, people fix up their old cars and replace the mufflers. If the economy booms, so do sales of Chopped Vans. Still, Weiger is not satisfied. "We see the ordinary customer only a couple of years after he buys his car," he laments. "That's not soon enough. We'd like to sell him shock absorbers and other things." The company is now also operating three self-service gas stations. The Midas...
News is great--Angola, Jimmy Carter, Tongsun Park and all that--and I appreciate the elegance of Doonesbury, but for me the day begins with the sports page. It's my morning fix; I can't start without...
...antidote to soothe the consuming obsessions of Idi Amin. Some of his opponents, much to their regret, have tried other possibilities. Amin himself has proudly documented at least nine separate attempts on his life. He seems to have a fix on every thought, not to say plan, concerning his enemies. Once last year, as the presidential limousine was driving through northern Uganda, some opponents ambushed the car and pumped it full of machine-gun bullets, killing all the occupants. But Amin had switched cars down the road -and survived. Later, a grenade bounced off Amin's cheek in another...
...scene passes in which Graham fails to have his cast hoof and puff their way through one more number. Still, this does not stifle the spirited entertainment or the sorrowful history. For TV viewers who suffered withdrawal pains at the conclusion of Roots, Minstrel Man offers a timely fix. Roger Wolmuth