Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in 1969 when Southeast High School of St. Louis finished its baseball season by winning the Illinois Missouri championships. Chris Papagianis was in centerfield and 20 major league scouts were in the stands...
...kept the Packers in the fundamentalist Lombardi mold: solid defense and methodical, ball-control offense. A former quarterback at the University of Minnesota who married the school's homecoming queen, he began his head-coaching career at Arizona State in 1955; three years later he moved to Missouri, where he led the Tigers to twelve straight winning seasons and six bowl-game appearances. Fastidious to a fault, Devine, 46, has a penchant for washing his whistle in alcohol after every practice. "If you're looking for a word for me," he says, "it's fussbudget. The little...
...other pro teams, they were merely proof that the newcomers were, as Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry had predicted, "going to find it's a different game." Devine, who says that he was hit but unhurt "30 to 50 times" while patrolling the sidelines at the University of Missouri, might well agree. Nonetheless he insists that "football is football, whatever the level." Like former Packer Coach Vince Lombard!, he believes that "what wins games are the simple fundamentals...
ABOLISH FIXED SENTENCES. "It takes a Superior correctional counselor to inspire in an inmate a desire for self-improvement when he faces several hundred years of confinement," observes Fred Wilkinson, Missouri's Chief of Corrections, with some hyperbole. Indeterminate sentences have been used in California for years. Sometimes, as in the case of George Jackson, they have had the effect of absurdly prolonging prison terms because parole examiners did not like a convict's attitude. But the system would work, it has been argued, if inmates were regularly reviewed by a panel of psychologists as well as parole...
...first in a series of forays that will take Muskie in the next few weeks to West Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. In October he will concentrate on New York and New England, but he will stop in Mississippi, Ohio, New Jersey, Kansas and Missouri as well. By Nov. 1, he will have visited 14 of the 23 states -counting the District of Columbia -that will hold primaries next year. His strategy at this early stage is to drum up intersectional support and create enough political momentum to last through the hazards of the primaries...