Word: maras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often these past few years, the voices have not been heard from the middle-of-the-road majority of the hierarchy, either in the U.S. or abroad. They have come from loyal independents like Brazil's Dom Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor, or Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, pleading for a greater role in the church for bishops, priests and laymen as well. Often they have come from outside the hierarchy altogether: from Daniel and Philip Berrigan, languishing in jail for the cause of peace; from the irrepressible Hans...
...less than 3 times over." Even though Pete Rozelle virtuously forced Joe Namath to give up his Bachelors III nightclub because of alleged patronage by gamblers, Parrish charges the league's very roots were sunk from the start in the subsoil of big-time gambling. The late Tim Mara, longtime owner of the New York Giants, was once a legal bookmaker at New York race tracks. Art Rooney supposedly bought the Pittsburgh Steelers after winning $256,000 at Saratoga Race Track in 1927. Baltimore Colts Owner Carroll Rosenbloom has always been a high roller, according to Parrish. Other owners...
Selfish and Callous. At a press conference, Giants' President Wellington Mara piously insisted that he was moving to New Jersey only to provide Giant fans with a better place to watch the team play. Clearly, though, a main motive was money. The Mara family has run the Giants on a shoestring since Wellington's father Tim bought the New York franchise in 1925 for a piddling $500. Said Tim at the time: "A New York franchise in anything is worth that much, including one for shining shoes." It certainly was. Though the football Giants were subtenants all their...
...beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall. A meeting between Tarkenton and Giants President Wellington Mara clarified matters. Tarkenton would receive a salary reported to be $125,000, but no loan-period. A contrite Fran promised to be good. "I'm very, very sorry," he said of his brief delinquency. "It was a hasty move...
...Vatican aide cited approvingly both the U.S. activities of the Berrigan brothers (provided they did not resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested...