Word: kuhn
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...Kennedy International Airport in 1978-were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining for payoffs even when the point shaving was unsuccessful...
Sweeney and Kuhn suggested cutting Cobb in on the deal because, as the team's top scorer, he could most affect their attempts to beat the spread. In fact, of the nine games involved, three times the players were unable to deliver, and the spread held. The deal, Hill contended, was struck at meetings in various Boston hotel rooms and netted the players as much as $2,500 a game. Hill said he cleared some $100,000 in eleven weeks of placing bets on the rigged games. The players deny all of Hill's allegations of payoffs...
...murals were covered with wallboard "to give us more wall space for the collection," Charles L. Kuhn, curator of the Museum until 1968, said yesterday...
...Eckhard Kuhn-Osius New York City
...Expos now stand at the top of the heap in the N.L. East, in search of the first Canadian pennant. Picture it: a World Series in the snow, with Bowie Kuhn shivering in the front row. By succeeding in the American pastime, the Expos may force 100 million Americans to do what no international crisis, no war, no referendum has ever done: notice Canada...