Word: lebaron
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Better known as Briggs Cage, the center was named after LeBaron Russel Briggs, former dean of Harvard College from 1891-1902 and president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association...
...Chrysler will place its popular Plymouth Voyager and Dodge Caravan minivans in the showrooms of four countries: Switzerland, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The firm is considering exports of its LeBaron luxury coupe as well as of high-performance versions of the Dodge Shadow and Plymouth Sundance compacts. Chrysler hopes to sell at least 500 cars next year for starters. Says Lutz: "If we're doing 30,000 to 40,000 units a year in five years' time, that would be a proud achievement...
...Cowboys General Manager Schramm, a member of the National Football League's five-man "competition committee," which every off-season invades the Hawaiian islands in the pursuit of progress. The other mad scientists are Miami and Pittsburgh Coaches Don Shula and Chuck Noll, and Atlanta and Cincinnati Executives Eddie LeBaron and Paul Brown. "Every now and then," says Schramm, "we'll move out onto the grass and play like we're football players. Here we are, five strange men in shorts, demonstrating different ways ^ of holding each other." They get some unusual looks from passersby...
...best are tossed about so easily in sports, like footballs in the Miami rain, the most articulate superlative left may be just a gasp changing to a sigh, such as Doug Flutie brought to college football last week. The most cuddly player in history, or at least since Eddie LeBaron, appears about to run away with the Heisman trophy. Mindful that there have been stirring football finishes for 100 years, and rip-roaring games the equal of Boston College's 47-45 victory over Miami, it can be fairly stated that never have a forward pass and a statue...
Though sales of new convertibles have not lived up to optimistic projections, they remain popular. Chrysler has sold 11,867 LeBaron and Dodge 600 convertibles this year, and Ford has moved 8,739 topless Mustangs. Jim Roberto, sales manager of Denver's Skyline Dodge, says he sells rag-tops as fast as he receives them. This fall another convertible will debut: a canvas-top version of the American Motors sub-compact Renault Alliance...