Word: paisley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole host of players with twinkle-toe shoes and pageboy locks. Defensive End Tommy Hart, who started a run on white cleats among the San Francisco 49ers, says gleefully: "We're psychedelic, man!" The Chicago Cubs' Joe Pepitone, who favors lavender suede sashes and see-through paisley shirts off duty, gets his kicks on the field by wearing a fluffy hairpiece. In the National Basketball Association, beards, goatees and blossoming Afros are as common as jump shots. The Buffalo Braves' Emmette Bryant has different colored sets of headbands-one for home, the other for away games...
...team, when you get out there on the field today, look straight through the purple shades and into the eyes of that Yale fullback in the paisley helmet. Think of him and Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...
Bernadette Devlin, 23-year-old Catholie spitfire whose jailing on charges of inciting to riot was the immediate cause of current troubles, was out of action. But there was no lack of troublemakers. Protestant Extremist Ian Paisley and 30 followers demonstrated at England's Canterbury Cathedral, carrying placards that read JESUS SAVES-ROME ENSLAVES. At the cathedral, a Catholic mass was being conducted as an unprecedented ecumenical gesture. Meanwhile, the Republic of Ireland's Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Patrick J. Hillery, slipped quietly across Ulster's border to tour Belfast's battened-down Catholic districts...
...power, the Heath government was confronted with its first real crisis. London had already decided to bolster the 8,000-man garrison in Northern Ireland with 3,000 more British troops. Its decision followed a threat by Ulster's Protestant militants, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, to hold a series of Orange Order parades of the kind that provoked last year's violence between Protestants and the Roman Catholic minority. The extra soldiers were needed sooner than anyone had expected...
...plot, both men -former Agriculture Minister Neil Blaney and ex-Finance Minister Charles Haughey-flatly denied any involvement. In any event, disclosure of the gunrunning story heightened Protestant fears of a Catholic plot to take over Ulster and strengthened the hand of such right-wingers as the Rev. Ian Paisley. To appalled moderates on both sides of the Irish border, this seemed to promise renewed religious strife in the North this summer...