Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a slow start this year, Azikiwe had come on quickly, turning in solid showings in the last several games, but the lanky senior has apparently worn his Crimson jersey for the last time...
...Newark and Detroit was confronted with organized arson, mass looting and, most terrifying of all, snipers firing at Guardsmen from darkened windows. In both cities, the Guard lacked a clear-cut chain of command, suffered from the hesitation of political commanders, was committed to piecemeal units. The New Jersey Guard lacked radio equipment to keep in contact with the state police, and both Newark and Detroit Guardsmen lacked bulletproof vests and proper riot helmets. It should be said that the record is not all negative: in Milwaukee, a curfew and quick action by Guardsmen, who flooded the streets...
...corner of Jersey and Brook-line, a lone hawker stands shivering. "Get your girl a souvenir garter," he barks, waving a cardboard with a lone garter. "Get your genuine World Series garter, last one left." There are no takers...
...Mark di Suvero, 34, a Shanghai-born stablemate of Grosvenor's at the downtown Manhattan Park Place Gallery, constructs giant wood, steel, rubber-tire and rope constructions at his New Jersey junkyard. They are often designed to let viewers ride or swing on them, carry richly evocative titles such as Elohirn Adonai, Stuyvesantseye or Love Makes the World Go 'Round. -David von Schlegall, 47, is a space-age Mainer who fabricates immense wing-shaped constructions and soaring bolts out of shiny aluminum. One of his giant untitled works, supported by an interior space frame, is currently on display...
...pounder, little of it muscle, Matchan commutes by private helicopter to his home on the isle of Jersey, one of Britain's semiautonomous Channel Islands, where he lives in noisy defiance of mainland inheritance taxes ("they offend my nostrils"). With his 96% stockholding, he runs Cope Allman with a spare, 25-man head-office staff "because I dislike middle management and all that sort of thing," likes to make patriarchal, publicity-grabbing visits to the firm's 15,000 worldwide employees. He frankly favors a personality cult as good management policy, "as long as the personality doesn...