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...GEORGE FOREMAN...
...ring he is a joke, standing there like Buddha, hoping some galoot will walk into his earth-orbiting fist. But Foreman, 42 and gaining, laughs as much as anyone. Along with other grand old fogies, like baseball's Nolan Ryan (who at 44 pitched his seventh no-hitter), Foreman answered the sports fan's need for father figures who can still play with the kids...
What recession? Not in the prime-beef market of pro sports. Jordan will reap about $25 million in 1992, most of it from product plugs. Evander Holyfield earned $20 million waltzing with Foreman. Bobby Bonilla signed with the New York Mets for $29 million for five years. And Minnesota-Twin-for-a-year Morris, 36, whose won-lost record for the past four seasons is 54-57, rented his right arm to the Toronto Blue Jays; the two-year deal is worth $10.85 million. That's about $1,500 a pitch, for those of you who couldn't afford...
...GEORGE FOREMAN...
...decades, from 1938 to 1969, Fowler worked at Mount Weather, helping both to dig the original mine and to complete its transformation into the secret complex. Crews worked around the clock for three years, blasting and excavating in a damp but constant temperature of 52 degrees F. Fowler was foreman of one of the three 40-man shifts. "That was some rough, tough, dirty work," he recalls. Between 1953 and 1969, Fowler witnessed a marvel of engineering, working first for the Bureau of Mines and later for the Army Corps of Engineers. "It was amazing the way they could drive...