Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track. Still, he insists that the event was remarkably successful as a trial run. "After all," he says, "we're showing people that we're trying to improve the quality of the sport in this area." Quality, in fact, is the keynote of Veeck's latest pitch. "You shoot off your fireworks and pull your stunts," he says, "but all that is frosting on the cake. Great racing is the thing...
...Penn alumni were impressed by President Harnwell's pitch. Still irked at the Penn sit-in, one man declared: "For the time being I am putting the university on probation and withholding my annual contribution." A Harvard graduate of 1944 was even more bitter. After the spring disorders in Cambridge, he wrote to his class-gift chairman demanding his money back...
...estimated $30 billion a year. In particular, tobacco companies, department stores and cosmetics makers have all found the soul sell an effective conduit to Negro buyers. Because of the development of a separate black identity and its unique idiom, companies are turning to black advertising agencies to set the pitch...
...middle of the 1968 season, when he decided in a fit of frustration to return to his natural swing. He has been hitting better than .300 ever since. "I'm a line-drive hitter," he explains, "and I have to hit the ball where it's pitched. When you swing for the fences, you get out in front of the pitch, and that's what ruined me before...
...that end, C.C.N.Y. has already admitted 732 less qualified students, who get special tutoring and then enter the regular undergraduate program if and when they qualify. Unfortunately, lack of money threatens both the long-range plan and the tutoring program. Assorted protests and racial fights have reached such a pitch at C.C.N.Y. that President Buell Gallagher recently resigned (TIME, May 16). For the moment, Gallagher has been succeeded by Joseph J. Copeland, a 61-year-old professor of biology, who is now serving as acting president...