Word: ralph
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...Little Rock, Ark., Ralph LaForge, 70, a former University of Arkansas football star, collapsed and died of a heart attack and a heat stroke after playing nine holes in 102° weather. His best friend and golfing companion, Edward Taldo, 66, died half an hour later of the same causes while on his way to notify LaForge's widow...
Federal District Court Judge Rya Zobel ruled that because Ralph and Molly Hoagland are involved in both restaurants, the two establishments constitute a "single employer...
When the 4,000 delegates and alternates came to town, the city lived up to its convention slogan: DETROIT LOVES A GOOD PARTY. Local Republicans held cocktail parties and cookouts, staged boat rides and concerts. North Carolina delegates were feted at a reception in Grosse Pointe Shores thrown by Ralph Wilson, owner of the N.F.L. Buffalo Bills. The Minnesota delegation was treated to a luncheon and fashion show at a suburban branch of Saks Fifth Avenue department store, and South Dakota delegates enjoyed a cookout at the Detroit Yacht Club. Under a huge tent at Stroh's Brewery, hundreds...
...DIED. Ralph ("Shug") Jordan, 69, head football coach at Auburn University for 25 seasons (until 1975), and winner of more Southeastern Conference games than anyone but Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant and Mississippi's John Vaught; of leukemia; in Auburn, Ala. Jordan had 175 wins, 83 losses and seven ties; though Bryant's Crimson Tide beat Jordan's Tigers 13 times in 18 years, Auburn's five wins were the most against 'Bama by any S.E.C. team...
...regard the action as little more than a sugar-coated placebo that will have little effect. As a consequence, they are calling for even stronger measures to cope with what FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, calls "our overmedicated society." One reform proposed by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group: require doctors to write a new prescription every time a patient wants to buy tranquilizers. Under the FDA's current rules, tranquilizer prescriptions can be refilled up to five times in six months...