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Think about it. What NFL, quarterback didn't wear 12? Think of Staunch, Namath, Griese, Bradshaw and Stabler. All future Hall of Famers, right...
...first nobody believed his proposal, particularly since it would require the conversion of the synchrotron into a particle collider, at a cost of $55 million. Rubbia's notions, however, had one staunch supporter: Simon van der Meer, a senior engineer at CERN. Van der Meer designed a device critical to the taming of the colliding beams in Rubbia's experiment. In 1979 CERN gave Rubbia and Van der Meer a go-ahead for their project, and by 1983 the three particles had been found...
...Pete V. Domenici (R-New Mex.) will likely be the first to drop out of the race if voting goes to a second ballot. The Chairman of the influential Budget Committee and a 12-year Senate veteran, Domenici is known as a staunch budget-cutter and a capable, though profoundly unexciting, legislator. He's been keeping very quiet about his candidacy for Howard Baker's post--and not too many people are talking about him either...
...talk show A.M. Los Angeles; from John De Lorean, 59, financially troubled automaker who was acquitted seven weeks ago on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine; on grounds of irreconcilable differences; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. The image of staunch wifely devotion during the four-month trial, Cristina is seeking custody of the children and a share of her husband's disputed assets...
...most often as a reassuring and formidable gentleman; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born in Canada, Pidgeon reached his peak of popularity during the 1940s and '50s when he teamed with Greer Garson for eight films, most notably Mrs. Miniver, in which he movingly portrayed the staunch father of an English family whose lives are rent by World...