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...money, a first-stringer got $400,000, and a rookie lineman collected $150,000 just for signing a contract. This year the battle for graduating college stars figures to be fiercer than ever, if for no other reason than that each league has one new team to stock from scratch: the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League...
...woman passenger forced open an emergency door, and, after diving headfirst onto the wing, dropped to the ground. Others followed; 50, including the entire crew of six, survived-three without a scratch. Forty-one others in the rear of the plane died-many as they pushed in panic toward the exits...
Chief Joseph was splendid in defeat. When he came riding into the white man's camp that cold, snowy morning in 1877, there was a bullet scratch across his forehead, wounds on his wrist and back, and bullet holes in his shirt and leggings. Handing his rifle to Colonel Nelson Miles, he spoke: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. The old men are all dead. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away...
...case of a man condemned to death on the evidence of a phony ballistics expert. With the help of a New York City detective, Waite demonstrated that the prisoner was innocent and ballistics (as then practiced) was baloney. With admirable zeal, he set out to create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that...
...Even the Yugoslav government, not known for knuckling under to popular opinion in other spheres, canceled its scrubbing of what it calls Dennis, the Naughty Boy in the face of mounting protest. The second reason: the U.S. price is right, a small fraction of the cost of producing from scratch. Which is not to say that foreign syndication is a giveaway program. Estimated annual take on the part of U.S. packagers for foreign replay rights: $75 million; and many a show that was a disaster domestically, like The Reporter (killed by CBS last year after 13 episodes), is a winner...