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...important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany, 2-1. "When I heard about Algeria," said the great Pelé, now retired and covering the games for a Mexican television network, "I thought the World Cup had gone...
...beat a tough Soviet Union in the opening round, more than a thousand supporters danced to drums and maracas in the hot streets around the stadium. Draped in green-and-yellow national flags (or nothing much at all), they celebrated Brazil's best team since Pelé anchored the thunderous 1970 squad...
...100m Relay--1. Brown 41.6; 2. Harvard; 3. Dartmouth. Discus--1. Pel (D) 47.83m; 2. Schuler (H); 3. Robinson (B). Steeple Chase--1. Regan (H) 9:26.2; 2. Fadil (D); 3. Cairns (D) 1500 meters--1 Schuler (H) 3:53.5; 2. Young (D); 3. Midlo (H). 100 meters--1. Stephens (B). 10.6. 2 Carter (B); 3. Hudson (H) 110-meter Hurdles--1. Brothers (B) 14.8, 2. Ferguson (D). 3. Harshbarger...
Masselli did so in the name of a company he created in 1976 called Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp. Masselli became president of Jo-Pel. Joseph L. Galiber, a Bronx Democrat who is still a New York state senator, was vice president. Masselli put $3,600 into forming the company, and Galiber invested $3,800. In the past four years, their firm was paid more than $8 million on its contract work for Donovan's firm...
...there's a war on. They don't seem to realize that most of their plans for sneaking out are also boys' games. As always, these two stars are marvelously professional, and even Stallone's ego is more or less under control here. As for Pelé, no one asks him to act. He is required merely to be what he has always been: a magical figure. That he is, and he suits a movie that finally exerts its own kind of magic, not subtle, but totally winning...