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...equivalent of shareholders. They elect the workers' councils, like the one at Red Banner, that serve essentially as a factory's board of directors. Behind the democratic facade, of course, Communist Party control is ironclad. In theory, says a Western diplomat in Belgrade, the self-governing councils are "the purest form of Marxism." But in practice, "the trade union and the management are all controlled by the local party in every big plant...
This year Good was portrayed by Penn State, coached by Joe Paterno, 59, who might rightfully call himself Joe Paternal and is actually nicknamed Joe Pa. His Nittany Lions, who won the national championship in 1982, have long been counted among the purest football players in the land. In the plainest uniforms, down to the bare calves and black shoes, they even dress the part. Quoting a predecessor, Junior Quarterback John Shaffer recalls, "Chuck Fusina once said that if Coach Paterno could get away with it, he'd remove the numbers from the jerseys." Before marching unbeaten into Miami...
...known for the purest swing and the poorest luck in the National League. When the fifth game of the 1972 playoffs--the very pennant--came down to one pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two out and the winning run on third, McRae was at the plate poised to be the hero. But Pittsburgh's Bob Moose threw a wild pitch that utterly erased the figure in the batter's box from memory. With the bases loaded in the seventh game of the World Series, McRae managed only to tie the Oakland A's with a deep...
...medical associations and posturing legislators. Watching a fight like last week's in both horror and appreciation, finding equal wonder in savagery and science, one is amazed and a little ashamed that there has always been a class poor enough for this uncivilized business, this simplest sport or this purest art. What can you call it? Jake LaMotta, still married, called it "the best three rounds of fighting I ever seen ." --By Tom Callahan
...fact, one might even go so far as to claim that dodgeball—in its purest form, of course—comes closer to encapsulating the spirit of the Olympics first handed down by Herakles, then taken up once again in 1896, than those events brought to you every two years...