Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PATERSON, NEW JERSEY is a place that inspires people. It inspired poets Allan Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, it inspired Angelo Bresci, the anarchist who killed King Humbert I of Italy before World War I, and to the city's lasting pride, it inspired "Leaping" Sam Patch, the only man to leap Niagara Falls without a protective device...
...civic-minded merchants and opulent monuments, Paterson never found benefactors among its industrialists. It was merely a place to house the workers who ran the silk factories, and the industrialists fought every attempt to improve or beautify the town. Jacob Rogers of Rogers Locomotives declined to donate a small patch of land for the city hospital. "I don't owe anything to Paterson," he said...
...present equation of Italian politics. A center-left coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, headed by former Premier Mariano Rumor, fell apart last month over what measures should be taken to deal with the emergency, and President Giovanni Leone has so far been unable to find anyone who can patch together another government. Amintore Fanfani, the secretary of the Christian Democrats and perhaps the strongest political figure in the country, tried and failed. Last week Leone asked Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who has three times before served as Premier (1963-68), to see if he would have better luck...
...surprisingly short order, Mayor Moyer has done just that. He has started a new, moneymaking transit system with five buses complete with carpeting and ste reo. He has arranged for welfare recipients to clean streets and plant shrubs, ivy and trees. He has encouraged the Neighborhood Youth Corps to patch up the old train station, thereby enabling Amtrak to reopen it for passenger ser vice a year ahead of schedule...
What is it that keeps them going? What inspires those guys who stare enviously at a patch of bench or the ones who'll never even dress for the J.V. scrimmage? Oh, they'll tell you it's for "the love of the game," or some other well-bandied phrase, but a more perceptive eye sees right through that centennial helmet--right down to that last big game, that vestige of glory--the previous senior year...