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...Accidentally kick a shoe off as you go into a split. If you’re really lucky, it’ll fly into the audience and hit someone...
Unlike major league baseball, the N.F.L. has kept its teams financially sound by adopting a share-the-wealth strategy. The teams split all the league's gate receipts and television income. That discourages clubs from trying to outbid one another for players because any added revenues that a new star generated would have to be shared. "The N.F.L. is the nation's healthiest sporting enterprise," brags Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Its profits amounted to $77 million last year...
...found the country more beautiful and its problems even more complex than he had expected. "By its very nature as a society based on apartheid, South Africa is a country with a split personality," he says. "The black portion is at war with itself in its segregated townships, and the white portion, which rarely sees those townships, goes about its normal life. But this time the two segments are thinking about each other constantly. I hope it is not too late for them to sit down and negotiate with each other...
Fisher immediately sent his divers to the area, and instructed them to investigate a 3-sq.-mi. patch of underwater reef ten miles southwest of the Marquesas. He was relying on the supposition that the Atocha had probably split asunder on the reef. But a small find that at first seemed encouraging led him astray. In 1973 Fisher's boat, the Virgalona, hauled up his first Atocha finds, an anchor and three silver bars, some two miles or so from the site that Fisher had targeted. Says McHaley: "I wish we had never found them. It was a false lead...
Behind Botha's obdurate stand is the tacit admission that his tentative reforms over the past two years have been less than successful. His white constituents, the majority of them Afrikaners, whose African roots go back to the landing of Dutch settlers in Cape Town in 1652, are more split than ever. A verligte (enlightened) faction, which forms a significant part of Botha's ruling National Party, is aware that some form of political accommodation with blacks must come eventually. A verkrampte (literally "cramped," or hard-line) breakaway group is determined to keep things as they are, if by sjambok...