Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time once again for all you pseudo jocks to shine as bright as your hero as we leave the plastic world of domed stadiums and mod sod and return to the natural turf of yesteryear, where Ozzie and Harriet topped the Neilson Ratings, Danny and Juniors were grabbing gold records for ABC-Paramount, and football was king...
Penn-Dartmouth. The Indians are for real; the Quakers aren't. There will be no Drexel Tech first game to make the Quakers look better. There will be no Astro-Turf to help Penn bounce back up. And worst of all, there will be no Lehigh or Brown players on the opposition bench...
Penn completely dominated its match with Brown. A light rain and the slick Quaker Astro turf gave Penn's speedy offense a slight advantage over Brown's strong defense. But the Quakers outplayed the Bruins in every aspect of the game...
...game." Last week the Phillies were buried in fifth place in their division; yet the club's attendance has been running 500,000 over last season. The chief reason is the new $45,000,000 Philadelphia Veterans Stadium. The stadium has parking for 12,000, wall-to-wall artificial turf, escalators, theater-type seats, air-conditioned boxes and usherettes called the Hot Pants Patrol. It has not just one but two exploding scoreboards that can do everything but cook the hot dogs. The big spectacular is a routine done by Philadelphia Phil and Phillis, two 25-ft.-high statues...
Another important aspect, he believes, is for black and white to explore each other's turf. Since its inception, the corps' most ambitious programs have been aimed at this goal. This summer, 200 to 300 Hartford ghetto children will spend two weeks in suburban homes, while many whites will repay the visits during corps-organized housepainting projects and ghetto-neighborhood get-togethers. Coll also has completed arrangements to take over the National Guard camp at Windsor Locks, Conn., for several weeks to create a "Corps City" for 100 black and white children. Says he: "We'll challenge...