Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual Super Bowl is a memorable event for scores of players-and millions of spectators. But for one Manhattan couple it holds an uncommon attachment. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein, who worked on this week's cover story, followed Super Bowl VIII (Dolphins v. Vikings) on an early date with an attractive young nurse. This year Rosenstein will be flying to California to report on Super Bowl XI, and the same lady-with whom he also saw Super Bowls IX and X-will join him for the game. But they will be hurrying back to New York City; the following...
...Phillips, who wrote the story, reports that almost every January since 1967 she has settled down "in front of the biggest color TV in the neighborhood" to soak up the Super Bowl extravaganza. (She missed seeing only one-but listened to it over the radio in the Tan Son Nhut Air Base cafeteria in South Viet Nam.) Football has been a part of her life since the days when her older brother had dreams of becoming another Johnny Unitas. "He learned to pass with me as the receiver," she remembers with a smile. "I chased badly thrown footballs...
...Super Bowl. It is the Great American Time Out, a three-hour pause on a Sunday afternoon in January that is?as sheer, unadorned spectacle?an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, crime disappears, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town...
Football thus remains the major reason for the Super Weekend that is quickly approaching. There will be 103,000 fans in Pasadena and millions nationwide engrossed in this sports spectacle...
...here at Harvard, Reading Period will take a weekend vacation. Super Bowl XI, in all its monstrous proportions, will arrive to disrupt studies and dominate activity (or the lack thereof...