Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cost considerations are giving some localities pause. Last summer Houston voters resoundingly rejected a $2.35 billion bond issue for mass transit, despite the fact that it would have meant no new taxes for the first leg. As a result, the city lost all but $5.5 million of the $110 million in federal aid it had been allocated from the gas-tax fund, and its proposed 18-mile heavy-rail system appears to be on permanent hold. "It's a humbling experience to take a licking like we did," admits Alan Kiepper, general manager of Houston's Metropolitan Transit...
...third Leverett student hurt in the crash, Peter B. Strong '85, is recuperating in Memphis and will take an additional semester off to rehabilitate his damaged leg and arm before returning to Harvard this fall, Strong said last night...
Troop grumbling about uniforms is hardly new but often justified. World War I doughboys suffered puttees, tight leg wrappings that all but cut off circulation. Their helmets offered minimal protection. In World War II, G.I.s complained about suffocating ponchos that kept out the rain but kept in perspiration...
...Milo Stephens Jr., a 19-year-old with a long history of emotional disturbance, threw himself into the path of a subway train as it pulled into a station on Manhattan's East Side. One of the cars ran over him, severing a leg, one arm and part of the other. Several months later his family retained Aaron Broder, an enterprising personal-injury lawyer, who sued the New York City Transit Authority for negligence. Broder acknowledged that Stephens had put himself at risk by jumping, but he was prepared to try to prove that the motorman had been negligently...
...Theismann, who recalls thinking, "I'm not here to learn; I've learned," the first year in Toronto was a celebration: the Argonauts went to the Grey Cup. But the next season Theismann broke a leg, and the year after that, salary became a bitter issue. He liked the wild Canadian game, enjoyed fielding an occasional punt and kicking it right back for a rouge (one point). But money and celebrity are attractive to him. In 1974, Theismann came home to the U.S. to fall in behind Billy Kilmer and Sonny Jurgensen with the Washington Redskins...