Word: oaklands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educated goalie became famous for eating glass, keeping a pet boa constrictor, posing nude for a Viva centerfold and playing on last year's championship New York Cosmos soccer team. Messing, 28, is no longer upset, having just signed a $100,000 per-year contract with the fledgling Oakland Stompers, making him the highest-paid American soccer player in history. "I didn't start playing soccer until I was 18," says Shep. "I hope my new contract will be an incentive for American players...
...party's campaign against police brutality in Oakland, Cal., resulted in a 95-per-cent reduction of police brutality in that city, Seale said. He added that the group's free-breakfast program also fed poor children before they went to school...
Seale said his mayoral bid in Oakland was one example of working pragmatically within the system. He added that by distributing free food at political rallies, he attracted poor constituents, and by maintaining a conservative profile, he convinced people that he was a serious candidate...
...Vida blue? The Oakland Athletics star pitcher had hoped to leave his losing team (last year's record: 63-98) and join the talent-heavy Cincinnati Reds. But Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who nixed the plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests...
...reunion with Rome. The church has only about 100 parishes and 10,000 members, v. 2.9 million for the Episcopal Church. But the rebels predict quick growth now that bishops are in place and have set a goal of 100,000 members by midyear. Says Robert S. Morse of Oakland, Calif, one of the new bishops: "We will, in 50 years, be the only Episcopal Church in the United States...