Word: phils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wall-to-wall artificial turf, escalators, theater-type seats, air-conditioned boxes and usherettes called the Hot Pants Patrol. It has not just one but two exploding scoreboards that can do everything but cook the hot dogs. The big spectacular is a routine done by Philadelphia Phil and Phillis, two 25-ft.-high statues in colonial dress mounted at press-box level. When a Philly hits a home run, Phil strokes an animated ball, which strikes an animated Liberty Bell, which lights up along the crack, and the ball then ricochets and conks Phillis on the noggin. Phillis responds...
...team's losing ways. Kapp not only failed (the hapless Pats' record of two wins and twelve tosses was the worst in the National Football League), but when training camp opened last month, he pronounced himself unhappy with his contract and left the team. Meanwhile, Defensive End Phil Olsen, the team's No. I draft choice last year, announced that he had discovered a loophole in his contract; he quit the Patriots and joined the Los Angeles Rams. Soon after that, Linebacker John Bramlett, the team's Most Valuable Player last season, was unexpectedly placed...
...Defense for International Security Affairs: "It will be difficult to convince critics that we are not destroying South Viet Nam in order to 'save it' and that we genuinely want peace talks." By contrast, other Pentagon officials enthusiastically backed Westmoreland's request for more troops. Phil G. Goulding, then Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, even argued in part that the additional troop commitments would help unite the country and still criticism of the conduct...
...Phil's big joke of the day was yet to come. Mt. Auburn Cemetery is on our tour, and Phil told us that 175 acres were used up and that five remained. "But there's one stipulation on the last five acres," Phil said...
Attackman Phil Zuckerman made the second team in the All-Ivy selections, as well as being invited to play in the North-South game. Fellow attackman Cle Landolt was honorable mention...