Word: montana
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During his years at Utah, Gardner, with his wife Elizabeth, a graduate of the University of California (San Francisco), and their four daughters, ages 13 to 22, got away as often as he could to a cabin that has no telephone, located on an island in a Montana lake. Gardner acknowledges that he was "comfortable" at Utah and that, at 49, he was perhaps too young to have that feeling. After considering the offer for 24 hours, he agreed to go to California and a life, as his daughter Lisa knows, that is bound to be a good deal less...
...Football Gazette, Goal Post Pro Football, Game Plan Pro Football, 1982 Monday Night Football, Lou Sahadi's Pro Football 1982 Annual. The headlines are similarly charged: Super Sports offers "You could hear them snickering!' Chris Collingsworth's Battle to Become a Superstar," San Francisco 49er Quarterback Joe Montana graces half of the covers of the magazines, where he "Looks to the Future." "Reveals His Plans to Keep the 49ers on Top," shows "How It Works" and is described as "Pro Football's Most Exciting Quarterback...
Conscious of the redundant coverage given Montana and others, the magazines also offer articles which strive to be different. Lou Sahadi's Pro Football Annual unveils "secret ratings on every quarterback" from the "private files" of one of the league's most respected personnel experts Goal Post Football offers a "New!! ACCU-RATE Power Rating System" for the National Football League's 28 teams. And Game Plan Pro Football employs the "Stat-Key System" for the same purpose. "The Stat-Key annual enables the fan to estimate point differences between the scores of opposing teams. The Offensive and Defensive ratings...
Even so, sex is not what they really care about. The main preoccupation is with death, from the most traditional internist to a Montana-raised ex-Marine who has become an Orthodox Jewish male nurse. To Jack Buckman, director of emergency medicine, death is an opponent that must be beaten every time: "If it ever happens that somebody comes into the emergency department alive and awake and 15 minutes later he's dead, the physician taking care of him better have a goddam good reason why it happened...
...team that lost only three games in a full 19-game season last year won only three in a struck nine-game season this year. The offense was O.K., though what little running the 49ers had last season dwindled even more. Quarterback Joe Montana was fine. Wide Receiver Dwight Clark was splendid. However, the defense tumbled from second in the N.F.L. to 21st...