Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other college track team in the U.S. would B.A. lot happier. Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (known to his friends as "Pinch") was the only Negro Governor Louisiana ever had. He is best remembered as a founding father in 1880 of Southern University-a 6,800-student state college in Baton Rouge, whose personal albatross is that it must admit every accredited high school graduate in the state, regardless of whether...
...that wage-price hikes be held to a noninflationary 3.2% a year. In current negotiations alone, the International Association of Ma chinists is asking the nation's major airlines for a 15% increase, Denver ironworkers want 15.7%, Kansas City carpenters are asking 10%, Albuquerque bricklayers want 19%, and Baton Rouge operating engineers...
...National Symphony in Washington. The competition was unbearable; indeed, as the pressure mounted, some of the entrants seemed a bit teched. One shaggy-maned candidate continually roamed the hallways, humming and conducting an imaginary orchestra with all the jabbing vigor of a shadowboxer; another, never without his trusty baton, sat in on bull sessions and conducted the rhythm of the conversation, cueing each participant as though he were a virtuoso soloist. Superstitions were rampant. One contestant, lest he be jinxed, ran off with his hands clasped over his ears each time someone tried to wish him good luck...
...response was instantaneous. A New Orleans meat packer shipped two tons of soap directly to Rod. Children gift wrapped individual bars, rushed them off by airmail. Other contributions inundated the Clarion Herald. A Baton Rouge TV station weighed in with 700 Ibs. of soap, a New Orleans seventh-grade civics class with 700 bars...
...John Peters, 38, a onetime street fighter from the grimy English mill city of Leeds. A specialist in coping with sticky situations, Peters was called upon to break the Simbas' front line at Baraka, the toughest battle the mercenaries ever fought. Peters stood up, gripped his officers' baton (he never draws his pistol in battle), and led an attack that broke the Simbas' line in 20 minutes...