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Well, not the Joe Friday, Jack Webb's immortally stylized police professional, but rather old Joe's nephew, encased in the comical form of Dan Aykroyd. A true inheritor of the manners and morals of the '50s, he is a cop whose unhappy lot is to protect and serve the Los Angeles of the 1980s. To him, that is roughly equivalent to working the night watch out of Gomorrah...
...runner chose to make his name at Annapolis was brutally elemental: boxing. Though he lacked the natural tools to excel, he worked harder than anyone else. In his third year, North fought his way into the academy's middleweight championship. At 147 lbs., he was scheduled to meet James Webb, now Secretary of the Navy. Webb was the favorite, a polished puncher; North the underdog, all blood and guts. In front of 1,500 screaming midshipmen, North won the three-round fight in a close decision. "Ollie was a Friday-night fighter," recalls his coach, Emerson Smith. "One of those...
...summers ago, these very same Gulls had probably the most celebrated cast in the USBL's brief history. Among their ranks that summer were Spud Webb, Manute Bol and John Williams, now all prominent NBA performers. Many a picture of teammates Webb, who stands 5-ft., 7-in., and Bol (7-ft., 6-in.) floated around that summer...
...track. One of the more fascinating races that involved obstacles was the 110 high hurdles. When I compared the height of the hurdles to the height of most of the athletes, I realized that only Manute Bol could possibly run the race without hurting himself. Maybe Spud Webb could run under the hurdles and achieve the same goal...
...both sides renewed the old battle, Lehman's successor, James Webb, pointed out that the Midway will be 50 years old by the time it can be replaced. But the highest Navy officer, Admiral William Crowe, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired a shot across the fleet's bow by arguing that "painful choices have to be made." The admiral said he would give higher priority to such matters as "modern munitions, antisubmarine warfare and the SSN ((attack submarine)) program." That may have sounded like mutiny to the Navy, but some budgeteers on Capitol Hill were applauding...