Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uniforms for the workers and prizes to be used in promotional giveaways. Perhaps most important, many franchisers offer name recognition backed by advertising razzle-dazzle. Each of the 2,600 Taco Bell outlets in the U.S. has benefited from the chain's national TV campaign starring Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon...
...pinstripe Jackie Robinson. Says Lewis: "It is wrong to focus on being the first black to do something." He and his three brothers and two sisters were raised in a middle-class household in Baltimore, where Lewis attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and then became a star quarterback at Dunbar High School. "He put a lot of time into his studies. He didn't goof off," says his mother, Carolyn Fugett, who divorced his father and married Jean Fugett, an elementary school teacher, when Lewis was nine years old. Though he does not readily talk about it, Lewis must...
...first time I watched Arena football I was totally shocked. I couldn't believe it when I saw Denver Quarterback Stuart Mitchell (a Cornell alumnus) throw the ball 10 feet into the net over his receiver's head. But what really surprised me was that the receiver and the defending cornerback both tried to catch the ball off the net behind the endzone...
...Harness Race held recently at the Pompano Harness Track in Pompano Beach, Fla., was just such an event. There was a fruit pudding of celebrities: George Plimpton, the author and New York City bon vivant; George Steinbrenner, the New York Yankees' Teutonic owner; Ken Stabler, the former Oakland Raider quarterback; Steve Mizerak, the world champion pool player; Kim Bokamper, the mammoth Miami Dolphin football star; and Oleg Cassini, the aristocratic little Italian fashion designer. Each one of them put on colorful racing silks designed by Cassini and then climbed into harness sulkies. They guided their spirited horses at a brisk...
Congress deals a blow to a weakened but combative President by overriding Reagan' s veto of the highway bill. -- States vie for the superconducting supercollider accelerator. -- Marine guards often turned the U. S. embassy in Moscow into an "Animal House." -- Former Quarterback Jack Kemp' s game plan for '88 presidential race...