Word: rico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outfield now, as is captain Yastrzemski, and Johnson has made other drastic changes. Tommy Harper is the designated hitter, Mario Guerrero is at short stop, Cecil Cooper holds down first, and Bernie Carbo is in the outfield. The squad is hardly recognizable from last year, except that Rico Petrocelli and Carlton Fisk should be back in the lineup in last season's positions as soon as they overcome early injuries, and Doug Griffin will play second again...
Ponce, Puerto Rico...
...With supervisors filling in for striking staffers, United Press International last week was tricked into a textbook journalistic boner. Finding a press release on Senator Edward Kennedy's letterhead in the U.P.I. Senate press-gallery box, Marty Houseman, normally U.P.I.'s bureau manager in Puerto Rico, rapped out a story based on the release's startling contents: Kennedy had told a visiting group of high school students that he was reconsidering his noncommittal stance on the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976. As word of the U.P.I, "exclusive" spread, Kennedy and his office staff were besieged...
...months since he had rendered Joe Frazier defenseless and bereft of the title, Foreman had defended the championship just once-and that was against the obscure Joe Roman of Puerto Rico. Out of the ring Foreman had almost been TKOed himself by a flurry of personal and financial blows. Now, on the eve and even the day of his fight against a serious challenger, Foreman was threatening to be a no-show...
Ineffectual Band. One man Spinola definitely did not have the ear of, however, was Américo Thomaz, Portugal's President, who wields great influence as a leader of the nation's wealthy, privileged "100 families." Thomaz has been unbending in his allegiance to Salazar's conviction that "the provinces" are an integral part of "Metropolitan Portugal." Backed by powerful conservatives in the government and in the National Assembly, Thomaz pressured Caetano into sacking Spinola and his sympathetic boss General Francisco Costa Gomes. The move caused tremors in the armed forces and set rumors afoot that...