Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line, heavy with superb blockers, had become a cohesive unit. Grogan's love of running with the ball made their jobs easier. With a mobile quarterback, linemen need not pour all their energy into defense of a very small place, the passer's pocket. Says Left Tackle Leon Gray: "With Grogan, a half a block may be enough...
...made the finals. Correspondent Arthur White runs and wins the annual fall tournament of TIME'S Washington bureau -with stiff competition from players like Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who manages to get in winter practice during lulls while accompanying Henry Kissinger on trips to sunny climates. Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and International Editor Jesse Birnbaum, who celebrated their 25th anniversaries with TIME in July, both requested memberships in a tennis club instead of the traditional watch mementos. Jaroff, 49, took up tennis only six years ago, after pedaling his bicycle through Manhattan's Central Park and observing players...
Almost two years after resigning as Watergate Special Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski has finally produced his long-expected account of the anxious, turbulent, year-long investigation that he directed into the worst scandal in American history. His book The Right and The Power (Gulf Publishing Co. and Reader's Digest Press; $9.95) is a straightforward, rather dry rendering, often made even drier by lengthy quotes from legal documents. Jaworski, who is donating the royalties to his own nonprofit foundation (which supports religious and educational projects), nonetheless offers some intriguing anecdotes and pungent observations. Among them...
...President had resigned: " 'He [Nixon] was crying,' Eastland said. 'He said, "Jim. don't let Jaworski put me in that trial with Haldeman and Ehrlichman. I can't take any more." ' Eastland shook his head. 'He's in bad shape, Leon...
...what's good for General Motors really is good for America," whooped Lyndon Johnson over the telephone in January 1971. He was congratulating the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, pastor of the 6,000-member Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, who had just been chosen as the first black to sit on General Motors' 23-member board of directors. Sullivan's election was widely regarded-not least by Sullivan himself-as an important test of the idea that a black presence in the board room could make a giant corporation more sensitive to the needs of minorities...