Word: naming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plainly in Rule 3 of every player's contract, states that a player "must not associate with gamblers or other notorious characters." And because of his questionable associations, Namath was clearly guilty of breaking the rule. Rozelle understood only too well what such transgressions can mean to the name of the game. Sooner or later, rumors would start circulating that gamblers were getting too close to the shaggy-haired superstar who led his team to a stunning 16-7 upset over the formidable Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl last January. Rightly or wrongly, word would quickly be passed...
...Schifrin's versatility stems from his parents' background. His grandfather had traveled from his native Russia to Amsterdam, intending to catch the first ship to the U.S. The only boat leaving immediately was bound for Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster...
...their failings. Among them: poor sound and visibility; inadequate parking, housing, sanitation facilities, and a mind-boggling plethora of uneven talent, which is often the result of a booking agency's insistence that a promoter has to take three or four second-rate acts to get a good name group. This summer's disturbances, however, do not mean that there is something inherent in rock that automatically leads to rioting; too many kids have lived un-rebelliously with today's pop sound for that to be true. Instead, the festivals seem to have become an experience akin...
...moved into (rent free) the organization's elegant town house in Philadelphia's Delancey Place. Soon, writes Walter, Harris had collected "several thousand dollars worth" of suits, jewelry (he went for diamond and sapphire rings), an expensive Daimler automobile, credit cards, exotic birds, camera equipment. The Buck name drew well, and by 1965 the board of governors included Art Buchwald, Sargent Shriver and Mrs. William Scranton. The foundation prospered...
...accomplished athlete normally starts his business career with important advantages: a well-known name, quite likely a college degree, and a bankroll. "The black athlete has an opportunity to get closer to capitalism than other black men," says Meredith Gourdine, a onetime Olympic long jumper who now heads his own scientific research and development firm in New Jersey. "He has been around money longer, seen how it is made and how it is used...