Word: vet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the radio broadcasting crew has changed this season. Dave Martin is out and Jim Wood is broadcasting along with play-by-play vet Ned Martin. And Narragansett Lager beer, the beer with that "straight from the barrel taste," is back again as a sponsor for the first time since the famous '67 season. (Of course, old favorite engineer A1 Walker is back once again this year to the delight of his many fans. Some things never change...
...them noted that in contrast to the outpouring of federal aid programs and massive industry drives to hire veterans after World War II, "Today, we are lucky if we get a two-minute spot after the late movie, containing a rather banal 'Don't forget - hire the vet...
...World War I vet, a past body-guard to two Massachusetts governors, a former boxing champion of the 135 pounders, Sullivan, known mostly as "Fizzy," now works at Harvard as a ticket taker. I met him at the Harvard-Yale hockey game...
Everybody's doomed in this world view, so life is giddy, fast-paced and self-destructive. And always--on the streets, in the womb-like bars--violence is rippling under a tiger's skin of desperate holding-on. A party for a newly-returned Vietnam Vet ends, predictably, with the medalled soldier sitting alone, a wallflower. It takes an instant for him to explode into savage confusion. Men are shot, quiet for a second, and then they go wild. The audience is always poised for this, and it helps drive the film...
...Being a former farmer and horse raiser," Reagan said, "I know what it's like to try to eliminate an injured horse by shooting him. Now you call the veterinarian and the vet gives it a shot and the horse goes to sleep-that's it. I myself have wondered if maybe this isn't part of our problem [with capital punishment], if maybe we should review and see if there aren't even more humane methods now-the simple shot or tranquilizer. I think maybe there should be more study on this to find...