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Great as the veteran pocket passers are, their futures are uncertain. Brodie, 37, whom many pros rate directly behind Namath in passing ability, ranks third in alltime yardage statistics, has had 207 career touchdown passes and was 1970's Player of the Year. He threw a lot of interceptions (24) in 1971, though, and was taken out of the 49ers game with Buffalo this year with an injured wrist. With two touchdown tosses last week against New Orleans, he is still in better shape than Jurgensen, 38, who glowers on the bench (at $125,000 a year) while that...
Humorist Will Rogers was never in any party's hip pocket. As he remarked in 1932, "This is not an election of parties or policies this fall. It's an election where both sides really need the work." How to tell a Republican from a Democrat? "The Republican says, 'Well, things could have been worse,' and the Democrat says, 'How?' " Nevertheless...
...meet the costs of handling small orders from individual investors rather than the institutions' big-block trades. In addition, many institutions want to buy seats on the exchanges-a practice now barred by the Big Board and Amex-to enable them to handle their own trades and pocket the money they would otherwise have to pay to independent brokers in commissions. Presumably these savings would be passed on to individual investors in the form of lower management fees or sales commissions. The SEC and Representative Moss have made specific recommendations on each issue, but they differ in important detail...
...Stringer Kendal Windeyer had a few minutes of excitement after interviewing a heroin dealer in a local bar. Two undercover agents at a nearby table unexpectedly approached and arrested the pusher. As Windeyer fumbled for change to pay for the drinks and follow the police, he discovered in his pocket three glassine bags that had been planted there by his guest. Worried that the police would question him as soon as they found their suspect "clean," Windeyer went straight to the men's room. "Somewhere in the sewage system of western Montreal," he reports, "there is a couple...
...feel here today, we're going to win the young voters." Within minutes of his nomination, he assured some 6,000 young people at a rock and show business rally in Miami's Marine Stadium that the votes of their peers were not "in anyone's pocket." He aimed parts of his acceptance speech at the young, suggesting that a vote for him would make "your first vote one of the best votes you ever cast in your life...