Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-page form will allow for two small variations. On the first page, universities like Cornell, which contain non-liberal arts schools, will have space to include the school for which the student is applying. The second page will leave a blank for questions by individual colleges...
...noncommittal ex-shop teacher from Darrtown, Ohio, the fellow who struck out the only time he ever got to bat in the big leagues, the homespun country boy who played percentages so devoutly that the Dodgers paid a fulltime statistician to do his arithmetic. Every fall Alston signed a blank contract, then waited till spring to find out how much the Dodgers were going to pay him (currently: $45,000)-if indeed he was still on the payroll. "We all get fired sometime," he shrugged. "The only question is when...
...spoiling for excitement, the boys challenge a rival gang to a fight. Stein becomes frightened and runs away; Lewis, the gang leader, decrees that he must be court-martialed and shot. Stein is shown the rifles and the live ammunition, and is blindfolded. Blank cartridges are loaded into the guns-or are they all blanks? This climactic tragedy brings on the only good scenes in the film-scenes in which the raw horror of their deed gives macabre substance to the performances of the adolescent cast. The point, as in another current film about British schoolboys, Lord of the Flies...
...Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through a popular front they had formed with Frondizi's party. Instead, the army simply disqualified most of the front's electors. Angered, Perón then tried to discredit the elections by ordering his followers to cast blank ballots. But he underestimated the widespread Argentine desire for an end to crisis. On election day, voters, fastening on the little-known Illia-a country doctor who still practices-as the most suitable compromise choice, gave him 27% of the vote. From there, Illia mustered the remaining electoral support...
...sage. Big crowds still turn out when the Dodgers come to town, or the San Francisco Giants. But only 6,505 paying customers were on hand last week to see the Mets lose to the Houston Colts, 8-0-their 16th loss in 17 games. From somewhere amid the blank spots in the bleachers came a plaintive cry of disgust: "Casey Stengel is a fink...