Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blayne Heckel scored first when he picked a B-School kick out of the air and ran 35 yards for the try. Team captain Peter Hilton converted and Harvard took a 6-0 lead...
...player can renegotiate for a new pact or decide to become a free agent, potentially available to every franchise. This past year, 26 major league players became free agents, including such celebrities as Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, and Bobby Grich. During the frenzied bidding war most major newspapers ran front page stories on the latest developments, following the bargaining sessions as closely as the Paris Peace Talks. Daily, the media announced the most lucrative contract offer ever made in the sport, only to be surpassed the very next...
...connoisseur, a trained reporter, a facile writer or even a modest warbler. However, even his fiercest foes concede that Frost is an artful, intelligent questioner whose disarming manner often coaxes confidences from a subject who might simply dry up under more abrasive handling. On The David Frost Show, which ran for three years in the U.S. (it went off the air in mid-1972), the host occasionally elicited startling admissions, like Ted Sorensen's statement that Senator Ted Kennedy, his longtime friend and associate, could not in the aftermath of Chappaquiddick run for President...
Warfield's thoughts echo those of many sociologists, who note that sports -and entertainment-have traditionally been used by minorities to fight their way out of the ghettos and into the mainstream of American society. In their turn, Irish, Jewish and Italian athletes and entertainers fought, ran, sang and joked their way into a society previously closed to them. The same journey is now being undertaken by blacks. Ironically, the very success of black sports stars has served to focus aspirations in the black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel...
Well before its publication, this second novel by a hitherto obscure Australian had become an economic event. Harper & Row ran off 225,000 hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...