Word: namaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowhere. "I'm just sick," says Manning. "What is so disheartening is that I was having my best preseason. We were making progress toward a more productive offense." For the Jets, the loss of Woodall leaves the team without an experienced quarterback in reserve behind fragile Joe Namath who has already put in three weeks on the sidelines with a pulled side muscle...
Merv Griffin, Clint Eastwood, Joe Namath and Peggy Lee practice it. So do thousands of other Americans, both famous and unfamous. Their passion, Transcendental Meditation, was not much more than a student cult when it first caught on in the '60s. But today TM, as its devotees call it, claims a fast-growing following among suburban housewives, businessmen, athletes and even retirees. The number of active TM practitioners has jumped from about 250,000 two years ago to more than 575,000 at present. Now TM has achieved indisputable certification as a full-blown nationwide...
...never thought it would come to anything," laughed Housewife-turned-Author Rose Namath Szolnoki. After 18 months at the typewriter, however, Rose has come up with a biography of her skeptical son, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Willie Namath. The book, titled Namath: My Son Joe, is still three months away from publication, but movie rights have already been sold and Broadway Joe himself tapped for the title role. "Joe has changed a lot over the past three years," said Rose last week, sounding more like mother than author. "Before, he had this image of the big sex symbol...
Everyone immediately thought of Joe Namath and his ad for Beauty Mist pantyhose, as if the guidelines would require him to wear them for at least one game a month. Not so. For Namath, of course, does not claim to use them but only, by implication, to admire them...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., while the country wallowed through another week of recession, Joe Namath pondered-and eventually rejected-a contract from the recently created Chicago Wind of the World Football League that promised to give him $500,000 a year for three years of play, a $500,000 bonus, plus $100,000 annually for his first 20 years of retirement. Apparently Namath decided working behind proven blockers on a solid franchise in publicity-conscious New York was worth more than the Wind's airy millions. If he remains as the Jets superstar quarterback, he will not be poverty stricken. Their...