Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college presidents who is a real leader. He had the courage to fire a radical professor at the cost of dividing his faculty. Dan Evans was an inventive Governor of Washington. He developed an independent VISTA program. Terry Sanford [former Governor of North Carolina] is really a great leader. He developed projects for multiracial groups that influenced the educational programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society...
...Turner, 40, acts as boldly as he talks, which is saying a great deal. As the brash owner of the Atlanta Braves, Turner was once formally reprimanded by National League President Charles Feeney; he has irritated the game's purists with several of his promotional ploys. In 1977 he took on the gentlemen of the yachting world and earned the chance to defend the America's Cup. Turner and Courageous won. His latest target: the nation's major television networks. His "superstation," WTCG in Atlanta, now reaches 4 million households in 46 states by broadcasting via satellite. Now the three...
...face of it, there is a passing resemblance. The great stone visage is that of an Olmec god who had something to do with athletics. That fellow posing in front of it to promote his city of Veracruz had something to do with athletics too. As mayor, he is known to his constituents as Roberto Avila González, 53. But a larger body of sports buffs remember him as Bobby Avila, who 20 years ago played second base for the Cleveland Indians when the Indians had more chiefs than they do these days. Avila in ten years with Cleveland...
...George Burns, who started performing in 1903, not long after Teddy Roosevelt became President. "Nobody," he insists, "is older than I am." Groucho, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Fanny Brice, Amos and Andy, and Gracie Allen, George's partner and wife for four decades: almost all the great comedians of the '30s and '40s are gone. But Burns, who is 83, is still around to enjoy the applause. His first dramatic role, in The Sunshine Boys, won him an Academy Award, and that brought him the part of the Title Character in Oh, God! in 1978. His newest...
...have remained a small-time vaudeville act and, when small-time vaudeville went out, I'd have gone out with it. I might have been a cutter of ladies' dresses. But whatever it would have been, it wouldn't have been great. Gracie made...