Word: jersey
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Cornell, Harvard's next opponent at Soldiers Field on Saturday, gave it a go in New Jersey before settling for another loss. The Big Red took a 7-6 lead in the third quarter before signalcaller Bert Kosup got the Scarlet Knights moving toward their 11th straight win with two touchdowns in the final quarter...
...farmers never liked it. They wanted to change the name to "New Jersey flu," but Jersey officials felt state had enough problems. Now UHS says that the swine flue vaccine--without an alias, but two months late...
Willing Workers. The strongest draw is the region's willing workers, who, in general, still respect authority, and, out of fear or conviction, are loath to join unions (see story on page 75). Says Yardley President William Hunt, who moved the cosmetic firm's headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta in July: "Our employees here seem genuinely glad to have...
...Bear's players, wearing the red jersey means being part of a tradition that reaches back to Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Lee Roy Jordan and Joe Namath. Says Defensive Back Andy Gothard: "Football at Alabama is earthly heaven." For the majority of students, the equation seems simple: by their football you shall know them. Cleo Thomas, Alabama's first black student-body president, says: "A national identity from football is all we have. If we had a losing season, we'd be nobody. We're gambling our pride and respect for the school on one thing...
...social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native of New Jersey, "Southern women never fail to say, 'Y'all come back and see us again soon' when they might want to say, 'Drop dead.' " Critic Haskell recalls having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society. "You ask the great big man what...