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...Allen, sticks with disciplined Billy Kilmer at the Redskin helm. Unitas joined Namath on that stratospheric day in Baltimore to set an N.F.L. record for most passing yardage gained by two teams in one game (872). But he is now 39, and his arm has never fully regained its snap after a 1968 shoulder injury...
...every citizen above 110th Street regards Painter as some kind of black Robin Hood. The movie comes unhinged occasionally, especially in sequences that borrow liberally from such diverse sources as Public Enemy and The French Connection; but Cambridge and St. Jacques, two resourceful performers, are always on hand to snap things back into perspective...
Some 42 million Americans, or about one in five, are photographers of one sort or another. Amateurs snap away at an astonishing rate, taking more than 5 billion pictures annually, or about 158 each second, night and day, all year long. Their purchases of film, cameras, flashbulbs and processing services are the backbone of a more than $4 billion-a-year industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that photography will be the second-or thirdfastest growing industry in the economy during the 1970s, rising an average 8% or 9% a year...
Rarely in U.S. business history has any company tampered so drastically with a product that is already so successful. Since introducing its first "snap it, see it" cameras in Boston's Jordan Marsh department store in 1948, Polaroid has marketed some 26 million of them; today it sells more cameras in the $50-and-over class than all other companies in the world combined. However, sales really began to take off when the company broke the cost barrier on earlier models and produced Polaroids that retailed at discount for as little as $ 15. Since 1961, revenues have risen...
...high school season had been in the single-wing--taking a direct snap from center,' said Wallace. 'But he really developed in spring practice and he's been even batter in our fall workouts. He has a chance to become one of the best running backs anywhere...