Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia 120, San Antonio...
...mild weather that prevailed in the rest of the country was perfect for the season's feasts and fairs. It was time for the Harvard-Yale game, U.S.C.-U.C.L.A., Nebraska-Missouri and a hundred aching clashes between rival high schools. There will be parades this week in Philadelphia, Houston and Hollywood, and of course the big Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. (Missing from that extravaganza, however, will be the familiar figure of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney officials, who control appearances by replicas of the celebrated mouse, do not want him to become too familiar...
Both observation and involvement came naturally to Margaret Mead, who was born in 1901 in Philadelphia to parents who quite literally raised her to be a social scientist. She was only eight when she was assigned to observe and record her younger sisters' speech patterns. Mead's university training-she studied at New York's Barnard College and Columbia University under such anthropology giants as Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict-only refined her talents...
Golden State 115, Philadelphia...
...everyone got off, however. Congressman John McFall, reprimanded with his two California colleagues for taking Tongsun Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude...