Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand on many difficult questions will not really be known until he actually puts his ideas into practice. He gives the appearance of sincerity when he insists, despite considerable adverse evidence, that he will not weaken the federal pressure for racial integration. "Watch what we do instead of listening to what we say," he cryptically told a group of 30 Southern blacks who were protesting the Administration's new school-desegregation guidelines. Though Mitchell's image as the Administration's heavy may prove hard to live down, he may be somewhat miscast in the part. Some...
Cardinal Rule. If he thought he was putting pressure on Rozelle, he should have known better. A cardinal rule of professional football, spelled out plainly in Rule 3 of every player's contract, states that a player "must not associate with gamblers or other notorious characters." And because of his questionable associations, Namath was clearly guilty of breaking the rule. Rozelle understood only too well what such transgressions can mean to the name of the game. Sooner or later, rumors would start circulating that gamblers were getting too close to the shaggy-haired superstar who led his team...
...being put on the movie Norwood, which features Joe as an ex-Marine living in Manhattan. He promised to report to the Jets' Long Island training camp by week's end. Would he also quit playing the midnight cowboy around his old watering place, which is now known to wags as Bachelors II? "I think now," said Commissioner Rozelle wryly, "that Joe has a better understanding of guilt by association...
Since the Six-Day War, Heikal's discursive prose (two columns on Page One and a full page inside) has dealt primarily with what in Egypt is known as "the Setback." Last April, Heikal managed to offend just about everyone from the Pentagon to Pravda when he advocated "a battle to shatter the myth of Israeli military supremacy . . . one in which the Arab forces might destroy two or three Israeli divisions, kill between 10,000 and 20,000 men, and force the Israeli army to pull back even a few kilometers." When a barrage of public and private entreaties...
...accomplished athlete normally starts his business career with important advantages: a well-known name, quite likely a college degree, and a bankroll. "The black athlete has an opportunity to get closer to capitalism than other black men," says Meredith Gourdine, a onetime Olympic long jumper who now heads his own scientific research and development firm in New Jersey. "He has been around money longer, seen how it is made and how it is used...