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...dizzy in the third quarter, wound up the game with a gashed and bruised right hand. "Mike Ditka [6 ft. 3 in., 230 Ibs.] stepped on it," shrugged Wilson, who regards injuries as badges of honor. "If a man comes out of a game without a bruise or a scrape," he says, "he shouldn't have been out there. Football means hitting-and I enjoy hitting people...
...University, and the community. The Patriots, without an acceptable stadium, might sell out to other cities. There have been several offers made recently. Harvard could collect about $200,000 per year, plus improvements on the Stadium. For Boston, professional football is both an economic boon and a promoter. Cities scrape for a franchise during a league expansion...
...Britain, banks are now within 1%, or $47,500,000, of the ceiling on the amount of money that they can lend; many banks are calling some current loans. At the same time, British corporations will have to scrape up around $1.5 billion by year's end to pay taxes on their dividend payments as well as the new selective employment...
...Marcel Hansenne, an assistant editor who finished third in the 800-meter run in the 1948 Olympics; and intellectuals such as Antoine Blondin, a novelist who won the Prix Interallié in 1959 and now writes a regular column of slangy, pun-filled and often sarcastic observations. Reporters must scrape along on salaries of $300 to $350 a month, and even top editors earn only $800 to $1,000; yet many of them quit higher-paying jobs on other papers to join L'Équipe. Why? "Because," explains Grand Prix Racing Reporter Johnny Rives, "I do the kind...
That is high rent for a squalid neighborhood, but most of the tenants somehow scrape up the cash. They also take pride in keeping their new oasis tidy: the eight cans a day of "airmail"-garbage hurled out the window-have now shrunk to only one. To earn rapport with tenants accustomed to being disregarded, U.S. Gypsum assigned Salesman Warren Obey as fulltime project manager. "When Warren came here," says longtime tenant Zion R. Paige, "he had three strikes against him. He was white, he was with a big company, and he was telling a story. Everybody around here...