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Allen's biggest contribution to the Rams' success is probably his nononsense approach to the game. Although he has never been known to criticize a player in front of teammates or to make a scene on the sidelines, Allen can be tough when he wants to. He slapped a $500 fine on one Ram player who showed up five minutes late for practice; any player who exceeds his prescribed weight at the regular Thursday weigh-in is automatically fined $100 per pound...
...Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each requiring roughly 30 minutes), Speaker John McCormack finally locked the doors for the first time since 1917. With a captive quorum, Democrats were able to ram the measure through...
Things have changed since then. White suburbanites, feeling the push of black families moving into their neighborhoods, wary of the threatening black men they see rioting in the cities, are now less eager to ram integration down the Southern gullet. George Wallace has found a constituency in the North that Strom Thurmond or Orval Faubus would never have...
...recalled how Nixon told Southerners during the G.O.P. Convention in July that the Republican Party had no intention of ramming anything down anybody's throat. "He's correct about that," said Wallace. "He and Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Warren have already rammed everything down our throats there is to ram. Well, we gonna have a good throat-clearin...
...cockpit" instrument array, a short rear deck and the long hood that is fast becoming a Detroit cliche. Mustang, the car that inspired the look, is becoming fast, period. Next year's "Mach 1" model will be able to live up to the name of its "Cobra Jet Ram-Air V8" engine. Top speed: 150 m.p.h.-plus...