Word: porter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing rules of amateurism could have been written by Cole Porter: Anything goes. On the occasion of his second consecutive victory in the New York Marathon last October, Alberto Salazar allowed as how, given a choice, he prefers his cash "under the table" rather than by way of one of the new trust-fund arrangements the International Amateur Athletic Federation has approved as a slender hedge against hypocrisy. Also on behalf of under-the-table money, Fred Lebow, the New York Marathon's candid proprietor, points out that it "is legal as far as the governments are concerned...
...could you do this to us?" the unshaven porter shouts angrily at Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek. The porter used to have a regular parking place for his motorized tricycle, but now he has been displaced by a new taxi stand. "We're a whole family, and we need this place to make a living!" he cries...
...what's going to become of us?" the porter demands...
About that unhappy porter: Kollek found him a new parking place...
French department Chairman Charles Porter, who opposed the new requirement, said that "it would be foolish to create the sense of bad will which you get with requirements." Most students at Yale know a second language before coming to college, he added...