Word: roster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much for the exceptions. The returning roster may be reasonably expected to carry the day. First there are the top guns. Senior captain Stein Rafto, sophomore Reid Eichner, and sophomore Ed Sheehan, will lead the pack this year...
...part not only of the European imports but also of Americans. The Cosmos, who field players of eleven different nationalities, have a Brooklyn-born Harvard graduate in goal named Shep Messing (each team is required to start one American and have at least five others on the roster). Indeed, after the championship game, Pelé symbolically acknowledged the improvement of the U.S. players by giving Jim McAlister, Sounder defender and Seattle native, and the league's rookie of the year, a souvenir that any soccer fan or player would treasure-the Great One's jersey. Said...
...described to the subcommittee how he let Park use $3 million in South Korean government funds in 1967 to help finance the fashionable George Town Club, which Park founded in 1966 as a way to get cozy with top U.S. officials. The posh club's 1976 roster of 400 members included six Supreme Court Justices; former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz; Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano and a score of Senators and Representatives. In all, federal investigators believe, Park may have spent as much as $2 million on parties at the club he had founded and gifts...
Incentive Payments. Records covering Stones' onetime association with the Pacific Coast Club-which has a roster that is a virtual roll call of American Olympians-have been subpoenaed. Stones denies any wrongdoing. Says he: "They're just after me because I've been in the papers more than anybody else." Still, the investigation is expected to spread to other prominent amateur athletes during the coming months, raising fears that the reputations-and perhaps the Olympic eligibility-of most world-class American track and field stars could be destroyed...
...Mengers reports, she spent most of their honeymoon in telephone booths on various Greek islands. 'Im a hustler," she admits, but she does not like to be called a "packager." She considers herself instead a "liaison between the motion picture community and the artist." Mengers' well-pruned roster of artists includes Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Hackman, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Barbra Streisand, whose Mengers-arranged role in A Star Is Born last year earned the Brillo-headed diva about $10 million, minus the agency's 10%. (The story goes that when...