Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News Editor Edwin Goodpaster relayed instructions and guidance on the needs of the editors. And Hugh Sidey, Washington bureau chief since January 1969 and our chief President watcher since 1960, assumed the baton of overall command...
...summer of 1968, the "sick-out" was another tactic in Bailey's continuing campaign to win PATCO recognition as sole bargainer for the controllers. The cause célèbre this time was the fate of three activist PATCO members in the FAA's Baton Rouge control tower. The agency has been trying to transfer the three for months, but has been stalled by legal and bureaucratic obstacles thrown up by PATCO. Last week a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled that the transfer would be entirely proper and legal-a ruling that left the sick...
...Harvard track team has given up its annual spring outdoor training trip to Jamaica for the somewhat more dubious pleasures of Baton Rouge...
...pros do not book his pre-game show, Murphy can satisfy his show-biz instincts elsewhere. Raised in Norwalk, Conn., by a 6-ft. mother who once played on a touring basketball team called the Bomberettes, he was a high school All-America as well as the state champion baton twirler. For two seasons, he and his baton were part of the half-time show at the Buffalo Bills' home football games. If unable to continue twirling for the Bills after graduation, Murphy will spend his spare moments at what he says is his favorite sport: roller skating...
...concerts and operas everywhere else. She also put in three years singing in provincial opera houses in Germany, an apprenticeship that left her able to cope with anything-including an orchestra pit so low that she lost a few bars because she could not see the conductor's baton. Subsequent triumphs at the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas, Covent Garden and La Scala were proof of her versatility. In 1960, back in the U.S., she married Henry Lewis, a young Negro who now is conductor of the New Jersey Symphony. Though her white friends warned her against...