Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coaches and athletes of a small (1500 students) high school in Westchester, New York. According to an agreement with the school district, he changed the names of the school and the team members. The disguise is thin--back issues of The New York Times reveal "Laketown High" to be Yorktown High School, and "Coach Buddy Fowles" to be Head Coach Buddy Douds. Probably intentionally, the real names of both Laketown and Fowles are slipped into the book as apparent typographical errors...
...Yorktown Harvester season was followed by the deaths of the fathers of two players. One of the players, who had always been cynical about "the family", looked back at the season and concluded that it had been wasted time that might have been spent with his father. The other simply ignored the past, stood with his mother and brother and assured Woodley that "we're all going to get along okay...
Died. John Stack, 65, aerodynamics engineer who played a central role in developing the first U.S. supersonic plane, and later was responsible for breakthroughs that led to the controversial F-111 swing-wing jet; of injuries suffered in a fall from a horse; in Yorktown...
...improved enough roads to girdle the globe 24 times, enough bridges to connect New Orleans with Havana, plus 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks and 853 airports. The WPA companion agency, the Public Works Administration, gave posterity Hoover Dam, Chicago's sewer system and the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise. In all, the two agencies disbursed $9.8 billion...
Died. Leland Hayward, 68, flamboyant Broadway producer; of a stroke; in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Hayward's career began in the 1920s, when he produced some 20 feature films. "They stunk," he said, and people agreed. In the mid-'20s, a nightclub owner wished aloud that he had an attraction "like the Astaires," adding that he would pay $4,000 for them. Hayward promptly turned agent and arranged the deal. "I decided this was my line of work," he said after collecting his 10% commission. After that, he steered the careers of James Stewart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Henry...