Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Health Organization is sponsoring a lecture on "Human Ecology" to be given by Professor Rene Dubos of Rockefeller University. Wednesday, July 16, 1969 at the Grand Ball-room of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. A limited number of complimentary tickets are available in Matthews Hall room 4. Open to all Harvard students, faculty, and staff...
...trouble was, says Veeck, "baseball was becoming boring. More games, more clubs, less talent and duller stretches than ever before." He opted for horse racing because "nine times a day you have something exciting happening. That's something most ball clubs can't guarantee these days." Win or lose, he says, "we promise that the fan will have a little fun." Even more, once Veeck gets around to installing the steam calliope that he recently bought...
...record books show, Mc-Nally is one of the few major-league players in history from Montana. Though Billings Central Catholic High School did not even have a baseball team, McNally made an impressive mark in American Legion ball. In 1960 he carried Post 4 to the Legion World Series with a brilliant 18-1 record that included five no-hitters and 259 strikeouts in 105 innings. In the Series, he struck out 47 batters in three games, and scouts from ten teams scrambled for him. Baltimore finally picked up the 17-year-old fire-bailer with...
...child, and in fact Franju constantly shows children looking at the scenes we are watching. From a sequence of a child being entertained with Alice in Wonderland ("Will you--won't you--will you--won't you/ Will you join the dance?"), Franju cuts to a masguerage ball. The measured actions and fantastic costumes of the dancers establish a fairytale quality, into which is integrated strong tension in the relations between figures. Later in the film a child stands staring at the villainess, who is disguised as a nun. Discomfited, she gets up and moves out of his view...
...primitive mind that can only understand an idea or a society by turning it over and looking at the underside. In the end they come up with a flawless portrait of a flawed man who is as simple, as forceful-and as dangerous-as Mattie's cap-and-ball Colt pistol...