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These are the men who make up the meanest front four in football, a half ton of trouble for any offense. Moving like a band of marauding behemoths (average size 6 ft. 4 in., 260 lbs.), they smother runners at the line of scrimmage, flatten passers, and send offensive linemen into disarray. "There are some great lines in the league," says Washington Redskins Head Coach George Allen, architect of one himself, "but the edge has to go to Pittsburgh. They put fear in the heart of a passer...
...York's Chemical, the country's seventh biggest bank, paid the defunct Security National company, which had been the 79th largest, $40 million for its assets. Explaining the speedy takeover, Chemical Chairman Donald C. Flatten said that Comptroller Smith "wanted it done quickly." Added Flatten: "The public interest was involved...
...site? Why did Harvard take out the demolition permit late on Tuesday and destroy the house early on Wednesday if not to prevent Community action? The University knew that the Community, the Planning Board and the Historical Society all wished to save that wonderful old house. And why flatten the garden? When the University razed the building at 11 Sacramento Street it at least left a few trees standing. Now the block looks like a bruised fighter who has lost his front teeth. Could the University have an interest in reducing the attractiveness as a place to live...
...encourage people to move into the downtown area, Philadelphia has been rejuvenating a neighborhood directly south of Independence Hall that is known as Society Hill. Instead of sending in the bulldozers to flatten the decaying district, Philadelphia has cleared out only the grim factories and warehouses, while rebuilding the small, elegant 18th century town houses and creating what Inquirer Editor Eugene Roberts Jr. calls "a suburb right in the middle of the city." In the past three years 23 restaurants and bistros have opened in the neighborhood, catering to the 8,000 people-mostly young couples-that have moved back...
...Senorita, no; when I have time. It takes longer, but they taste better--or so they say." Usually the women flatten the meal in a simple round pressing "machine." Little girls as young as four are accomplished tortilla makers. But the older women remember the day--about twenty years ago--when there were no "machines," and can still do it by hand. Dona Lucia makes tortillas every three days, but younger women with growing families often make them every morning. "And how do you like being here with us, Senorita...