Word: host
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...Williams. Cincinnati Reds Star Hurler Tom Seaver tosses a pitch, and Terrible Ted trots calmly to first base. The scene at Williams' alma mater, Hoover High School in San Diego, will air in the spring on the syndicated TV show Greatest Sports Legends, to which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well-bankrolled athletes, like, say, the $500,000-plus-a-year Reggie Jackson. "I'm envious," sighed the Kid. "I wish...
Lake Placid, N. Y., which played host to the Winter Olympics of 1932, has been chosen again for the 1980 Games. And after years of decay and decline, the little (pop. 2,800) Adirondack village is already experiencing a boom that could change the nature of the town forever. TIME Correspondent Peter Staler reports...
...need oxygen," gasped Lasorda, 50, whose celebrity tournament partner in Boca Raton, Fla., was Teen Tennis Star Tracy Austin. Martin scrambled madly all over the court, cutting off his partner, Rumanian Touring Pro Virginia Ruzici, until she gently suggested he stay at the net. Judged Umpire Dan Rowan, co-host of the old Laugh-In: "Both Martin and Lasorda exhibit much sharper back talk than backhand." When the verbal volleying was over, it was Lasorda and Austin, 6 to 1. "That doesn't make up for losing the World Series," grumbled the Dodgers' boss...
...host of issues confront a President who has yet to get his job in focus...
...coincided was by any standards an extraordinary one. Through David Cecil, she met Maurice Bowra, who, then in his mid-twenties-he was a year older than Elizabeth-was fellow and lecturer in classics at Wadham. (He became Warden in 1938). Bowra was already a celebrated talent-spotter and host; among those who were just finishing their undergraduate careers in the mid-1920s, and who came and went within his circle, were Rex Warner, Cecil Day Lewis, Brian Howard, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Clark, Henry Yorke (Henry Green), John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Sparrow, Isaiah Berlin, AJ. Ayer . . . There...