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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bigotry that was characteristic of so many big league ballplayers was expressed in other, more painful ways. In the field, Robinson was frequently spiked; at bat, he had the dubious distinction of being hit by beanballing pitchers more times than any other player in the league. Through it all, though, he kept his temper and helped lead the Dodgers to the 1947 pennant with a team-high batting average of .297. He quieted his critics with a display of clutch hitting, bunting, slick fielding and flashy base running that won him Rookie-of-the-Year honors. In one poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Hard Out | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

FRIDAY: Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Purity of Essence. Stanley Kubrick's brilliant nightmare about military paranoia and nuclear holocaust. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, and Slim Pickens push Kubrick's humor to the limits. Keenan Wynn as Bat Guano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 11/2/1972 | See Source »

...agreement, yet not formally invited to take part in the ceremony, she hid from the press while watching from behind a massive column. In China, she even managed to trick a newsman into eating the same fiery delicacy that she dispatched with a flick of her chopsticks and a bat of her eyelashes. She left the man gasping for water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...left won the American League triple crown, and the man on the right squeezed a pop fly of the bat of Rich Reese to end the greatest pennant race in modern history. On Tuesday night the man on the left hit a single and dropped a ground hall, and the man on the right struck out twice with men on base, and watched as AI Kaline squeezed Ren Ogilvie's pop fly to give the Tigers the flag. But hold your heads up. You're still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South by Southwick | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

Itaque Case coepit scribere fabulam heroicam quam discipuli legere amarent. Appellabatur Daimon, et incipi-bat simplicissime: "Olim erat in insula Herakleia puer nomine Daimon . .." Case primas paucas paginas exhibuit quattuor ex suis discipulis et hi constituerunt illi auxilium ferre ad fabulam scribendam. Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Daimon Omnia Vincit | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

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