Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police disperse pickets when Maxwell Taylor visits Lowell House and arrest four Harvard students during an unsuccessful sit-in at the Boston Army Base. Twenty-three professors participate in a "speak-out" designed to keep the spirit of dissent alive. Two thousand dissenters march in Boston Common...
...Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville Air Force Base by local Negroes last winter...
...learned in the Dominican Republic-where baseball really is the national pastime. For as long as he can remember, Marichal has been enthralled by the game, and it still sticks out all over him-in the gleeful way he hogs the batting cage in practice ("Bases loaded, two outs," he chirps, waiting for the pitch. "Base hit! Base hit!" he screams, whenever he connects), in the solicitous way he treats the hordes of youngsters who hound him for his autograph ("I remember how I felt about ballplayers when I was a kid"). Juan's father died when...
...windswept Candlestick Park, took his eight regulation warmup tosses, and prepared to pitch his first game for the "parent club"-against the Philadelphia Phillies. Maybe Juan was prepared; but nobody else was-not for what followed. For the first 61 innings, not a single Phillie reached first base. After 7 innings, Marichal still had not given up a hit. At that point, Philadelphia Catcher Clay Dalrymple singled sharply to leftfield, and the spell was broken-barely. Juan shrugged, retired the next four Phillies in a row and thereby put the finishing touches on one of the most glittering debuts...
...Freak ailments have been Juan's bugaboo ever since he broke into the big leagues. In 1961 he pitched his second one-hitter (against the Los Angeles Dodgers), but wound up with only 13 wins, ten losses when he was spiked in the leg trying to cover first base. In 1962 it was a twisted ankle that disabled him for 30 days-though he still posted an 18-11 record and picked up a victory in the All-Star game. Somehow, Marichal managed to stay healthy in 1963. On June 15, at Candlestick Park, he pitched a no-hitter...