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...England's rise has been as stunning as it was swift. The Patriots had not enjoyed a winning season since 1966. After a dismal three wins and eleven losses last year, Quarterback Jim Plunkett-the 1970 Stanford Heisman Trophy winner who was supposed to parade the Patriots to glory-asked to be traded to a California team. Patriot fans, sensing that the RENOVATIONS UNDER WAY sign might hang for years longer, responded by planning to stay away from Patriot games. Result: season-ticket sales dropped by 10,000, and first-game attendance was the lowest in the team...
...testimony of opponents is that Patriot blockers do far more. Neither Oakland's defenders nor Pittsburgh's Fearsome Foursome were able to dump...
...Lennon the long-sought green card bearing permanent resident No. A17-597-321. "It's great to be legal again," said John, whose problems with the Immigration and Naturalization Service dated back to a 1968 conviction in England for possessing half an ounce of hashish. Like a true patriot, Lennon immediately promised to dedicate himself to "wife, kids and a job" and then gave a big kiss to his Mrs., Yoko Ono. "As usual," John noted, "there's a great woman behind every idiot...
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some...
When the Continental Congress included a ban on theatrical performances in its 1774 resolution against "every species of extravagance and dissipation," it seemed for a while that the delegates had unwittingly aided the enemy. Patriots felt bound to observe the ban while British occupying forces ignored it, thus turning the theatre into a vehicle of Loyalist propaganda. In Boston, for instance. General John ("Gentleman Johnny") Burgoyne transformed Faneuil Hall, the Patriot meetinghouse, into a playhouse. There he mounted productions of his own works, notably the scurrilous anti-American satire The Blockade of Boston. (Justice was poetically served, however, when...