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...helmet," Gregg said as he previewed the new style for his amused troops last year, when the Bengals were a misleading 6-and-10, "and I don't want anyone making fun of it." The laughter stopped. Such is the old style of Gregg, the former Green Bay Packer offensive lineman, called by Vince Lombardi "the finest player I ever coached." Following one legend, it may help to have been acquainted with another...
...rent board examiner, James Packer, was unavailable for comment...
...factory . " Well, two weeks ago, Warner-Lambert announced that it would close down its gum-manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalizations of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job. Certainly workers often feel abstracted out, reduced sometimes to dreary robotic functions. But almost everyone commands...
Until someone makes a film highlighting offensive linemen reminiscent of the footgage showing Green Bay Packer quarterback Bart Starr plunging over Jerry Kramer in the 1967 NFL championship, the men in the trenches will probably lack the widespread recognition they earn. But the Crimson tight ends, who have carried a more visible load this fall, have gained the admiration of Harvard partisans...
...East Cambridge, the industry was more diverse, but the John P. Squire, meat-packer, was clearly dominant. The company eventually encompassed 22 acres, on which 2500 hogs a day were slaughtered. The glass industry, which once dominated the area, moved out in the 1800s, but there were plenty of factories left--Revere Sugar, Goepper Brothers, which produced barrels, the American Net and Twine Co., Dow fertilizer, even Lockhart & Co., manufacturers of caskets. By 1846, East Cambridge had 4000 people, "a healthy balance of commerce, industry and professionalism, no one activity dominating the others," according to one historian...