Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BAARON PITTENGER should also have been named athletic director last winter. At least he or Reardon should have. Only one man could get the call from the bullpen, though, and when Manager Bok motioned in that direction, Pittenger was not the one he called...
Moments later, a thunderous ovation went up as Miller snaked in a long putt on the 18th hole--the kind the British call "tram riders--to win one up over Steve Martin...
History will not call Stokowski a musician's musician. In his heyday, especially, he was much too adventurous with the sacred scores to please his colleagues. He was never afraid to experiment with sound, and was one of the rare few performers who would do so in a concert hall. On one occasion, he added electronic devices to the orchestra, to augment the double basses in a composition that he thought needed an extra heavy bass. Experiments in the association of color and sound that were done early in the century caught Stokowski's fascination. He once used a color...
...figure who feels wronged is former Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, caricatured in the show as an unbelievably goony Hank Ferris. (Actually, Ferris' job is a mixture of Ziegler's and that of former Special Assistant to the President Jeb Stuart Magruder.) Says Ziegler: "I have had friends call me about the portrayal of Ferris, who comes across as a particularly insipid character. I'm comfortable in my own mind that I'm not that character." Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President, calls the whole production "so far from the actual...
...heart. Even if the Gamesman were an exaggeration of a type, there is still enough truth in the rumor to make the average person tread carefully. It was the Gamesman, after all, who made it to the top of the business pile just in time to get the call to Washington and Camelot from the greatest gamesman of the all--President John F. Kennedy '40--and who stayed on to overanalyze the country into its most agonizing decade. Sound business tactics and calculated risks brought America into Vietnam and Cambodia, riots and recessions, and then into the Age of Nixon...