Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicago Correspondent Roberto Suro took advantage of his own Hispanic background. Entering a ramshackle tavern in the city's largest Mexican neighborhood, he was at first rebuffed by a bartender. Says Suro: "When I told him my name and began to speak Spanish, he warmed up and even encouraged his customers to tell me about their experiences...
Cornell likes to run the ball -- the Big Red has thrown only 29 passes in its first three games, with tailback Joe Holland totalling 369 yards overland for a 5.5 yard average and four touchdowns....Trivia fans will duly note the name of Cornell's second-string fullback for tomorrow's contest: Dick Clasby, Jr. Clasby, number two on Cornell's depth chart behind Ben Tenuta after missing two games with a hip pointer, is the son of ex-Harvard grid star Dick Clasby, Sr. '55. Dick's older brother, Mike, is a senior in Eliot House...
Without any consumer products that bear his name, Charles Engelhard has never attracted much publicity or fame in the U.S. In black Africa, however, the man whose money built the Charles Engelhard Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School was notorious. In less than 20 years, Engelhard built an inherited $20 million dollars into a global empire worth more than a quarter billion dollars at the time of his death...
Breakfast was already a losing proposition, so I read on. Henry, it seemed, had genuinely found a place for himself in the American Sporting life: with the North American Soccer League (NASL) casting around for a Big Name to sit in its front office, the former Secretary of State was the perfect choice to become its chairman of the board. Henry had all the credentials of your typical American sportsman: a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, several books on the history and theory of international relations, a Nobel Peace Prize and a startling resemblance to a clean-shaven John Belushi...
...parting character reference from the "My Three Sons" Department: "When people ask for my name I tell 'em MacMurray -- like in Fred. That way they spell it right...