Word: hometowners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underdog New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl. This season, transferred to the American Football Conference in the newly reorganized N.F.L., the Colts have had to live with the charge that they sneaked into the playoffs only because they were in the league's weakest division. Even hometown fans seem unimpressed; when the Colts defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 17-0 in the A.F.C. divisional playoff game two weeks ago, there were more than 5,000 empty seats in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Such indignities are not taken lightly by the team. Recalling the loss to the Jets...
...Mellor is a real good player," Cavanagh said of his hometown friend. "He's smart, so he knows when he can move up on the attack and when he has to drop back on defense," Mellor had 21 goals at defense last year...
Escape Clause. To get around the Philadelphia Plan's mandatory federal guidelines, union and black leaders in several cities have adopted alternate "hometown" plans, which call for voluntary quotas. These plans are generally not faring well. In Pittsburgh, negotiations between union and black leaders dragged on for months. Finally a compromise was struck: 1,250 new jobs for blacks by 1974. In Chicago last summer, union and black leaders announced that they would start putting at least 4,000 blacks into building trades unions. Although the Labor Department has granted $498,000 for training, only 75 blacks have been...
...Louis' experience with its hometown plan reveals another pitfall. Seven of 18 unions, accounting for just over half of the city's 45,000 building trades membership, have committed themselves to hiring blacks. The plan was held up until $524,500 in federal training funds came through last month. Within a week, 25 blacks were being trained, but not in highly paid unions like the electricians', plumbers' and steam fitters'. Arthur Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor, sums up the situation: "Neither the Philadelphia Plan nor the various home-town plans have accomplished a darn thing...
...weather was damp and cloudy as the Soviet Union's No. 1 soccer fan took his seat in Moscow's Lenin Stadium last week to watch the hometown Torpedoes defeat the Kiev Dynamos, 1 to 0. But as political observers on both sides of the Iron Curtain immediately realized, Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was also playing a game all his own. Only two days earlier, Brezhnev had abruptly canceled his plans to visit Bucharest for the long-delayed signing of a new Soviet-Rumanian friendship pact, pleading a "catarrhal ailment." His subsequent appearance at the soccer match...