Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They predicted such a state of economic euphoria that the aches and pains that appeared were magnified. "The glowing predictions I made a year ago were certainly wide of the mark," said Joseph L. Block, chairman of Inland Steel Co. "If I were a member of a big-league ball team, I would either be benched or sent back to the minors." The glowing predictions-and the dimmer actualities that followed-added up to a lesson. They made the U.S. see clearly that no matter what it had done, it was not enough. Employment stood at 67 mil lion...
...most persistent question now facing the Crimson basketball squad is how many games a team can win if it has only one scorer of note, consistently sloppy ball-handling, and almost no rebounding...
...play. In the doubles, Pietrangeli's finesse and Sirola's power combined for a 3-6, 10-8, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4 victory over Buchholz and his boyhood partner from St. Louis, stocky Chuck McKinley, 19. Next day Pietrangeli kept Italy alive by using patty-ball tactics to befuddle the slugging Buchholz, 6-1, 6-2, 6-8, 3-6, 6-4. That put the team score at 2-2 and set up a showdown between MacKay and Sirola, two of the hardest hitters in tennis...
...Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he blows his horn with the stridency of a barker at Coney. "I fill the people's gymnasiums, give 'em a good show and a good ball game," he says. "I may make silly statements, but I'm no jerk...
...some places the show is the clientele itself, three in particular: the Harwyn, the Stork and El Morocco. Like major-league ball clubs, they all have their stars. The Harwyn, especially nouveau riche, is a dissident Stork offshoot, having been started by former Stork employees, and treasures Frank Sinatra, who almost never slugs a photographer unless another one is there to snap the scene. (Eden Roc, in turn, is a Harwyn offshoot; New York nightclubs sometimes seem to multiply like amoebae.) The Stork itself is no longer particularly chic, and even the end of its feud with Walter Winchell...