Word: signal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Experienced Ivy quarterbacks are about as easy to find as discos in Iran. Only Columbia and Princeton feature experienced signal callers but neither team has the horses to be a title contender. Meanwhile, Brown, Dartmouth and Yale, on the basis of strength in other positions, look to be the favorites. But whether they win, place or show will depend to a great extent on their ability to solve the quarterback question...
...favorite target, Dave Shula returns at split end, where he caught a league-leading 39 passes in 1978. However, getting the ball to Shula may be a problem. Larry Mergerum, who backed up Tevens last year, saw only three quarters of action. He will vie for the signal calling slot with '78 J.V. quarterback Jeff Kemp, former defensive back Joe McLaughlin and sophomore Darryl Wong...
...protect its own, the American Bankers Association is holding seminars around the country on beefing up security. Rewards are rising for information leading to arrests. Many banks now use the dye pack, a bundle of money that releases red dye and smoke as a signal after the robber leaves the premises. Here and there police forces are deploying special units to fight the epidemic. New York City has set up three task forces of cops, including one that puts plainclothesmen in banks that seem likely to be robbed...
...places. In Los Angeles last month, 500 unionized nurses struck a Kaiser Permanente hospital in a contract squabble with the big health maintenance organization. In Denver, municipal nurses are now suing the city, charging sex discrimination in salary scales.* Nurses in Denver make less than, say, a trainee traffic-signal repairman. An even greater disparity exists with doctors, whose median income is now more than $65,000 a year...
Some French tourists visit America and signal approval, mostly...