Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never to Cleveland. Barefoot's Elizabeth Ashley is somewhat more expectable. She is a 24-year-old girl from Baton Rouge who has used up a few million ergs making good on the stage. She has checked hats. Off-stage she wears denim slacks, a turtleneck jersey, desert boots, and about three tablespoons of mascara. At work, she consciously seems to be imitating Audrey Hepburn (just as Sandy Dennis, disconcertingly enough, seems to be copying Marlon Brando), but inside this derivative shell a considerable talent seems to be winning in its effort to come...
Running the third leg of the two-mile relay, Meehan gave the baton and a twenty-yard lead to anchorman Chiappa, who breezed home for the victory. The time, 7:48.6, established a new Heptagonal mark...
What made Hoffa so disagreeable was the appearance of a surprise Government witness: Edward Grady Partin, 39, secretary-treasurer of a Baton Rouge Teamsters local-and, as it turned out, an undercover federal man during the 1962 Nashville conspiracy trial, from which the jury-tampering charges arose. In 6½ days of testimony, Partin insisted that he had been in Hoffa's confidence at the time of that trial. Hoffa, he said, had asked him to come to Nashville, told him "there might be some people he wanted me to talk to. He said that they were going...
YVONNE LEWIS Baton Rouge, La. >TIME forfeits these points...
With such an ensemble, the Boston was committed to Kaddish up to its ears. Bernstein had come to town to cajole and kibitz while poor Munch tried to lead rehearsals. "Beaucoup mieux, Charles," Lenny called down from the balcony, then finally took the baton himself for one of the last run-throughs. "Wonderful! Marvelous! Beyond my greatest expectation!" Lenny cried when all was ready. And indeed, when the music dissolved into the curious whimper that closes the work, Boston's well-dowagered matinee audience gave Bernstein and all the performers a nonstop 15-minute ovation...