Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Oriole Catcher Elrod, could have used: she gnawed her nails throughout the Series. Oriole Pitcher Dave McNally got one kiss goodbye and one kiss for good luck on the day he pitched. Should McNally have felt more amorous, it would have been to no avail-two is the limit. Strangest of all were the wives who deliberately didn't watch parts of the game. Twice the Orioles scored while one of the wives was away from her seat. After that, a contingent of Oriole spouses absented themselves every time Baltimore was at bat. They must have been doing something...
...arriving convention-goers were young-looking, most of them barely out of high school by their appearance, though the organization's upper age limit is 40. A lanky boy with a goatee jutting from his chin and a cowlick on the back of his head walked among the chatting delegates, hawking snap-shots of an astronaut standing on the moon next to a perfectly erect American flag. "They're copies made from a slide I got from an outfit in Houston," he explained. "Seventy-five cents...
...real villain is New York City's appallingly inefficient court system. In California, the law requires a trial within 60 days after arrest. In New York, defendants awaiting trial may languish in jail for months because the courts are so congested and the law sets no time limit. The congestion is partly due to aggressive defense attorneys, armed with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the rights of defendants, who slow the process with pretrial motions on behalf of their clients. Still, there is no excuse for cases like that of one inmate: charged with murder, he has been...
...between City College faculty and minority students produced a preliminary plan that would have admitted half of City's freshman class "without regard to grades." Politicians denounced the scheme as a "quota" that would elbow out normally qualified students. Blacks were skeptical because the quota had a specified limit-like those implicit in methods for admitting minority students at other U.S. colleges and universities. Bowker was secretly pleased when the tenured faculty and the board of higher education turned the plan down...
Approval for the committee's proposals-which would for the first time limit and review procedures on the term of a Harvard president-is automatic...