Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much would it cost the World Football League to sign Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield?" Ed Keating, who is business representative for the three players, was so startled he nearly dropped his fork. Then he decided the question was not entirely frivolous. After all, it had been asked by his associate at the Cleveland firm International Management Inc., a man who had recently been negotiating a TV contract for the W.F.L. Keating took his mind off his lunch for a moment and calculated the value of his prize clients. He scribbled figures totaling $2.7 million on his napkin...
Keating's next job was to get the players' O.K. His first opportunity came during lunch with the players and Bassett. "I didn't want to blurt it out," says Keating, "so I gave Larry the thumbs-up sign. When he didn't see it, I announced that I needed to use the bathroom. There was no reaction. On the second attempt, Larry got the hint and he followed me down the hall. When I told him, he gave me a bear hug." Keating took two more trips to the men's room with Warfield...
Early Saturday evening, Csonka called Coach Shula and told him that the three men might well sign if Miami did not offer more. Eventually Keating got on the line. "I was afraid the Canadians might rescind or lower their offer if we waited too long," he says, "so I told Don we needed to hear from Joe Robbie [the Miami principal owner] by the next...
...that it should expire. After dawdling for weeks, the Administration made an eleventh-hour stab at saving COLC, but the move was too weak and came much too late. In the past six months or so, COLC has got many firms and industries, including autos, rubber and aluminum, to sign agreements to exercise restraint in pricing in exchange for being freed from formal control. If COLC vanishes, those agreements will no longer be legally binding, and the companies can lift prices at will...
MOST HOPEFUL SIGN: The cinematography prize for Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's great cameraman. Hollywood can occasionally recognize production merit that is not ingrown...