Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native of Uniontown, Pa., Muncie is the fourth brother in his family to play football. Nelson is a cornerback with the Baltimore Colts, Bill was an all-star running back with the B.C. Lions in Canadian football, and George played briefly with the Minnesota Vikings. Chuck, who changed the spelling of his last name from Munsey because "Muncie goes back to my grandfather and great-grandfather," wants to be drafted by a California team. But wherever he ends up, Muncie does not plan to overstay his welcome. He is thinking of attending law school during the off-seasons, because...
...call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than his Patton. Best of all, Peter Sellers managed to create Henry Kissinger five years before Nelson Rockefeller did. The climactic line of the film, "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk again" comes the closest I can think of to the epitaph for the twentieth century. Sellers' other characters, Col. Mandrake, the British exchange officer, and the President, are completely on target. Kubrick's films are all good...
Eventually, cracks appeared in the Administration's monolithic resistance. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns expressed growing anxiety; Vice President Nelson Rockefeller broke with the President and urged aid to the city. Even hard-line Treasury Secretary William Simon quietly began to ponder a plan for assistance. Some give was also apparent on the other side. Carey and his financial advisers, who gained great power over the city, ordered deeper cuts in the city budget and girded for an epic battle over a tax increase. The Governor had to overcome the opposition of upstate Republicans in the legislature as well...
...cortege the previous Sunday. Although Queen Sofia seemed to enjoy the adulatory crush of those gathered in Madrid's Plaza de Oriente, the King remained impassive. In the supportive presence of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German President Walter Scheel, U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Britain's Prince Philip, Spain's new King had just decorously assumed power during an official anointing ceremony at the Church of San Jerónimo in Madrid. The façade of an orderly transfer of power from Francisco Franco to his designated heir...
...party. Not at the supermarket or butcher's, though. Holmes was personally slaughtering a calf at his father's farm outside Houston. "I gave him a forearm lift," says Holmes, describing his barnyard battle with the beast. "That knocked him into the fence Then I put a full nelson on him." Finally Holmes dropped the animal with a high-powered rifle. "Forty-five minutes later," he says, "we had the calf skinned and dried...