Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, which has led the fight against capital punishment since the late '60s, now finds itself hard pressed. A big reason why no one has died except Gilmore since 1967 is that L.D.F. lawyers have been racing around the country filing last-minute appeals. But...
In the time before baseball's free-agent era, ,the loudest sounds of the off season came from the hot stove league, that long winter of "Remember when . . ." and "Who was it that . . . ?" Today such gentle ruminations have been all but drowned out by the ringing of cash registers...
Off the field, Parker's new status has brought problems. Ten days before the Pirates broke camp in Florida, his suburban home was broken into. He has received death threats laced with racial epithets. Parker is both puzzled and angry over such incidents: "I knew things would be different...
What do you do if you hunger year after year for the championship of football's tough Big Eight conference, which includes perennial powerhouses like Oklahoma and Nebraska? For the Flatirons, the University of Colorado's well-heeled booster club, the answer was to call a power play...
A number of students and professors (average salary: $23,100) bitterly resented the bundles of money strewn in Fairbanks' path. The school is currently fighting a budget-saving move by the state legislature that would cut back enrollment, slice several millions from the university budget and lop 202 members...