Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's a little place in East Cambridge--it used to be a synagogue--where Portuguese Americans whoop it up every Friday night. Ernie Souza's combo plays in one corner and a bar stretches along the back wall. As Al Vellucci enters, the noise and the laughter shifts towards the door...
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...thanks to a weighted "national remainder" system of voting that favors five smaller parties at the expense of the large one, the Justice Party, with a majority of the vote in 62 out of 67 provinces, will hold only 240 seats out of the 450 in the Nation al Assembly (Inönü's Republicans get 134). Besides, Demirel himself showed that he knows where the real power lies. "The Turkish army," said he politely, "is a great asset to the nation. I don't know of any other army in the world that turned power over...
...Nobody, including Sandy Koufax, had any idea how good he was to become when, as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Cincinnati, he was spotted playing on a sandlot team. In 1954, Sandy signed a Dodger contract for $6,000 plus a $14,000 bonus. Scout Al Campanis wrote in his memo to Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley: "No. 1, he's a Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager Buzzie Bavasi, "there were many people...