Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...unsavory unions from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. During the campaign he was a natural choice as a top labor adviser on the Kennedy team, and last week, when George Meany presented a list of five names of top A.F.L.-C.I.O. men as possibilities, the President-elect rejected them all to pick Arthur Goldberg as his personal choice...
...Poking through a collection of 120 players put up for grabs by the eight established American League teams, the newly formed Los Angeles Angels and Washington Senators (the old Senators creaked off to Minneapolis-St. Paul) each fished out 28 men for their rosters. First pick of the Angels: erratic Yankee Righthander Eli Grba, 26. The Senators first chose aging (35) Yankee Pitcher Bobby Shantz, then promptly traded him to Pittsburgh for Reliefer Benny Daniels and two minor leaguers...
...Stanleyville in a perpetual state of terror. Fortnight ago he herded all 600 of Stanleyville's whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests and congregations more than once were ordered out of church at gun point, forced...
...home with her husband (a retired New York City policeman) and the kids. She studied the stage set carefully, worried over the number of stairs she had to climb, and threatened to wear magnetic clamps on her shoes. A major concern was her stage children. "If I have to pick up those kids," she said, "I'll get a hernia or something." With Translator John Gutman, Farrell changed some of the libretto's more flowery passages. "I'll be damned if I'll sing 'Let me fight trepidation,' " she said. Her version: "Give...
Broadway plays often start wrapping fads. The King and I roused interest in wrappings with an Oriental motif. My Fair Lady brought Victorian wrappings out of designers' files. The company hopes to pick up something from Camelot...