Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alinsky's Diamond he quits his familiar landscape and sets out on a literary crusade nearly as unfortunate as the one he describes in this novel. In the beginning, Francis X. Murphy, from Aruba, Ohio, is rotting away in a French château. He has married a baron's daughter and ruined her family - indeed the whole village of Vardille-sur-Lac - by being caught doctoring the local wine. As penance, Murphy resolves to drink himself to death by swallowing all 12,000 unsalable bottles...
...Blue Shield. Already, some 2,500 organizations round the country are experimenting with group plans. Students at the University of Massachusetts, for example, pay an annual fee and are now eligible for legal help in handling problems ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid for by union legal insurance. Shoppers at a large food cooperative in Berkeley, Calif., can climb to the second floor, put down a $25 annual premium and receive...
...Midwesterner accustomed to the bone-crushing that fills crisp fall afternoons at such institutions of higher learning as Ohio State and Notre Dame, I arrived in Cambridge a skeptic. Harvard football had always been swallowed up in that abyss known as "the East." To a diehard Fighting Irish fan tuning into the Prudential College Scoreboard, "the East" was nothing more than a boring prelude to the really important scores--usually a shellacking by a favorite topten power of some school mired in yet another rebuilding year...
...ever to arrange a heavyweight title bout. For the moment, at least, King has become the most important matchmaker in boxing-quite a distinction for a felon who ten years ago was known as the numbers baron of Cleveland and four years ago was No. 6178 at the Marion (Ohio) Correctional Institution, where he was serving time for killing one of his underlings...
...that has always telecast Ali's fights. To Arum's astonishment, he was quietly outmaneuvered by Don King. Since being paroled from prison in 1971, King had put together a small stable of fighters. He had also had a run-in with Arum over TV rights in Ohio for the second Ali-Frazier fight...