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...contender in a future Kentucky Derby may be Je Namath. Not the New York Jets' gimpy quarterback, but a brown three-year-old colt owned by Mrs. Liz Tippett (the former Mrs. Jock Whitney). "He's big and beautiful just like his namesake," said Mrs. Tippett. "But he's a little sounder in wind and limb-and he has good knees...
...injured when a bomb went off in his car. New Jersey was lurching through one of its periodic discoveries of mobster influence on public men and public affairs, while across the border in Pennsylvania there were no known leads to the identities of the brutal killers of Union Leader Jock Yablonski, his wife and daughter. The football industry, which usually confines mayhem to the gridiron, was shuddering on the eve of the Super Bowl through a fresh gambling-scandal scare...
CRIME A Deadly Venom Jock Yablonski aroused strong feelings wherever he went in the traditionally violent coal fields. In December, the burly 59-year-old former miner challenged President W. A. ("Tony") Boyle in an election to head the United Mine Workers Union. Yablonski lost, but not before he had made fiery speeches accusing union leaders of mismanagement and worse. Yablonski was the sort of man who inspired either ardent loyalty or deep enmity. Last week the enmity caught up with him. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were found shot to death in their secluded home in Clarksville, Pa., south...
Yablonski, who had started in the mines at age 15, once boasted that "Jock Yablonski can go anywhere in the coal fields." After he declared his insurgency, he began to fear for his safety. He was nearly paralyzed with a karate chop on the back of his neck during a campaign appearance in Illinois. "He was in danger from the very date the campaign started," said his son, Chip...
...down and figure it out-and in all that time. Harvard had not been able to beat Army in a swimming meet. In 1962, when the Crimson won, 51-44. I was a traffic cop in the halls of my junior high school. And Saturday, as a writer on jock types. I was waiting to see if perhaps it could happen again. But I really doubted...