Word: reads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written to everybody about smog," she continues. "First I wrote my representatives; then I wrote the county supervisors and I wrote to Lyndon Johnson; and then I read where Nixon was gonna declare war on pollution, so I wrote him. I wrote Ronald Reagan and I wrote Mayor Yorty. I wrote the airlines, the car manufacturers and J. Edgar Hoover. Sometimes I picket. We had a couple of breathe-ins downtown; we wore health masks into the county supervisors' offices. There isn't much time left. We make more smog, inside our houses, you know, from all those jet cans...
...then in his fourth year of spotty, second-string duty. The plays were sent in by the coach and "the boys didn't think too much of me in the huddle," Gabriel recalls. "I can't say that I blamed them. I had no idea how to read a defense." He soon became a speed reader. In the season's remaining month, Gabriel threw nine touchdown passes to account for three of the year's four victories...
Aching Backfield. Head Coach George Allen cites Gabriel as the No. 1 reason for the Rams' preeminence, and the reason is just the reverse of 1965: "He has the leadership, the respect of the team. And he can read defenses." Which is a special kind of compliment, coming from Allen. A defensive coach for the Chicago Bears. Allen went to the Rams in 1966 preaching what he practiced best: defense. His work with Linemen Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, Roger Brown and Lamar Lundy gave them the muscular title, "Fearsome Foursome." As for Gabriel, Allen merely gave him the football...
...together. Like, when we were both young, it was refreshing to find somebody who dreamed about females the way I dreamed about females. What's more, Playboy wasn't interested only in sex. It was the sort of magazine you could read on the Long Island Rail Road because it also published stories by legitimate writers. But lately I have been attracted by your siren song (if full-page newspaper ads can be called that...
...moles and appendicitis scars, and sometimes their breasts even sag a little. So we suggest you drop Playboy and take up with Penthouse. We are only in our third issue in the U.S. but we have been going for 4½ years in Britain. By the way, you can read us on the L.I.R.R. too. We have lots of meaningful stories by meaningful writers. Why, our inaugural September issue carried a piece that McCall's might have run: "Sex and the Unborn Child."-Penthouse...