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...Breed of Athlete" is a Madison-Ave. style approach, cosmetic and facile, to the controversies and changes that the sports establishment is undergoing. After all, what can you say about a book that puts Bobby Riggs in the forefront of the "New Breed" of athlete...
Grathwohl's travels took him to Madison, Wis., Buffalo and eventually to New York City, where he was directed to meet with Linda Evans, a member of the Weather Bureau, who was accused of conspiring to bomb police and military installations in four cities in 1970. Informed of his plans, the FBI decided to arrest her. To protect Grathwohl's cover, the agents also arrested him. But the Weatherpeople were still suspicious. He recalls: "They figured that Evans was informed on and that I was the only one who could have done...
...member United Federation of Teachers called it a settlement that "nobody likes." Certainly few educators did. As Shanker outlined the proposed contract to the union's delegate assembly (which had voted overwhelmingly to strike the week before), he was interrupted with jeers and catcalls of "Sellout." Outside Madison Square Garden, rank-and-file teachers chanted: "Vote no, vote no." The roiled, resentful membership finally ratified the contract by an unenthusiastic vote...
...troubles closed his Manhattan watering hole nearly two years ago, Restaurateur Toots Shor, 72, seemed to be down for the ten-count. Not a chance. Last week the Runyonesque drinking companion to personae athletic, literary and political opened the swinging doors of a new bar across the street from Madison Square Garden. "A good saloonkeeper is the most important man in the community," philosophized Toots, whose jampacked first-night crowd included Yankee Manager Billy Martin, ex-Met Yogi Berra, former Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey and Basketball Commissioner Larry O'Brien. And what had the legendary raconteur been doing during...
...school committee eased out William Leary as its $47,500-a-year superintendent in April amid allegations that he went along too easily with court-ordered desegregation. Milwaukee's board dropped dapper former superintendent Richard P. Gousha largely because it did not like what critics called his "Madison Avenue touch...