Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wetzel does not own any of the cars he drives, instead he is backed by private groups or professional racing teams. A now defunct group of businessmen backed him for the Italian race and the Bill Scott Racing Team backed him last month in the Gold Cup Super V 100, in Florida in which he took the checkered flag in second place...
...prophetic sense of indignation and immediacy flash forth from Cloherty--15 months of investigating the Washington super-structure, multinational corporations and other "sacred" cows has not dulled or desensitized his idealism...
...trying to wrest some Eastern distance freestyle titles from the clutches of Haydon, but nevertheless became the first Harvard swimmer ever to break the 16-minute barrier in the mile, and 4:40 in the 500. Freshman Ted Fullerton cleaned up in the breastrokes, and Tim Neville used his super psych to blitz the field in the 50 free. Some great swims, some even greater times, and an even more amazing season. The fact that the Eastern title won't be Harvard's for at least another year is really the least of the story...
Eddie Egan, the super-narc who overrode all authority in his attacks on drug traffic in The French Connection, is nowhere in sight in The Seven-Ups. Like the previous film, and Bullitt, this is a Phil D' Antoni production, mindless and numbing. D'Antoni is more careful at limiting his hero's powers in this second-effort: delivering the further exploits of Egan's former partner, Sonny Grosso, he lends Grosso's fictional counterpart, Buddy Mannucci, an institutional weight that Egan lacked. Mannucci heads a special plain-clothes corps aimed at gaining arrests (by unorthodox means) of men wanted...
This year's team also has its own star, one super defenseman named Ron Wilson. Wilson is rated as one of, if not the best, freshman playing defense in the East. He is a threat both ways, with a point total (37) that is tied for tops on the squad...