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Burning my throat...
...Joseph Durso's The All-American Dollar-The Big Business of Sports, qualifies as another. Although Durso, a well-respected sports journalist for the New York Times, fails to destroy the sports myth or attack with much zest, he often offers an insight into sport as a capitalistic, cut throat enterprise, controlled by television, run by businessmen in the front office, and played by athletes who continually keep their salaries in mind...
...Kane: "You find out that he hears what he wants to hear. I talked to him one day in his motel. He was across the room, shaving, when I asked him what it would take to get him out of the presidential race. I feared he would slit his throat as he made a fuss over all the issues he has in addition to busing...
...cleared us for taxiing calling us Air Force One." George Corley Wallace, 52, was headed back home to Alabama on the morrow of the greatest victory of his turbulent political life -winning a stunning 42% plurality in the eleven-candidate Florida Democratic primary. Lighting up a cigar, clearing his throat of the ever-present phlegm and spitting it into a handkerchief, Wallace was exuberant as he talked with his wife Cornelia and TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. "They having trouble with all that baggage back there? I wish I could travel with just one suit like I used...
...replace baseball as the No. 1 national sport. The change says a lot, because the difference between the two games is crucial. Baseball is a noble, romantic game that spurns time by expanding into extra innings. Football, with a sweep-second hand constantly at one's throat, is too much like real life. ·R.Z. Sheppard