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...Pastorini, 33, is not filling in for U.S.C.'s Trojan mascot. But it's a thought. The former pro quarterback, late of the Houston Oilers, the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Rams, will be a guest star this fall as Spartacus on Voyagers!, NBC's Sunday-night entry in its onetime Walt Disney time slot. In his previous off-the-field forays, Pastorini has racked up headlines for reckless driving, posing seminude for Playgirl magazine, having a couple of run-ins with...
...N.F.L. Players Association members who have objected have not merely been shouted down but threatened. "We get to see you on the field next year," N.F.L.P.A. President Gene Upshaw of the Oakland Raiders wrote to Denver Quarterback Craig Morton, after Morton had spoken out against the "55% solution." When asked later about the letter, Upshaw said, "If you want to look at it as a threat, that's just the way I meant...
...billings: $11.4 billion) has probably done more to transform the landscape of America and the world than any other company of this century. Among their many engineering extravaganzas, Bechtel's master builders have helped to design and construct everything from the Hoover Dam and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the trans-Alaska pipeline and the Washington metro subway system...
...appropriate to see leaders when there is business to conduct and it is worth their time." Characteristically, he merely mentioned in passing a new project, rather simple by Bechtel standards, that the company had just announced: the construction of a $100 million company office building in downtown Oakland, Calif. -By Alexander L. Taylor HI. Reported by Bob Buderi and Joseph J. Kane/San Francisco
...soft and sweet, an angel of love. He could feel her determination begin to melt into surrender. If he insisted now he could have her, he was sure, have a life with her in which the sweetness would never end. Images from their past love tumbled through his mind. Oakland Beach ... Amalfi ... Yet surely the sweetness would be short-lived. Having her, he would lose her. Not having her, he could love her forever. Not for Jimmy McGuire, not for all the priests of Chicago, not even for the Pope, but for Nora ... yes, for Nora ... he would do what...