Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Cincinnati Second Baseman Joe Morgan comes to bat, his eyes widen noticeably, a palpable sign to the man on the mound that Morgan is studying him with the intensity of a leopard crouching in a tree. On the bases, he measures the movements of the game just as keenly: taking the millisecond advantage, then streaking toward a stolen base, judging the parabola of a teammate's hit before springing around the bases, sliding in just ahead of the throw. Joe Morgan, the National League's Most Valuable Player for two years in a row, is surely...
Cool and Competent. Sane Backe is. He also is cool and competent, traits going back at least to his days as a Strategic Air Command pilot in the 1950s (he still flies around on weekends in his private Cessna). After receiving his M.B.A. from Cincinnati's Xavier University, he worked for General Electric. In 1966 he joined Silver Burdett Co., the publishing arm of General Learning Corp. (then owned jointly by GE and Time Inc.); General Learning was set up to explore new teaching techniques. Two years later Backe was running Silver Burdett, then he became chief executive...
...Southwestern Publishing Company is in Cincinnati, and hyphenates its name, South-Western. The Southwestern Company is in Nashville, and has worked with college students continuously since...
...Cincinnati, the wind-chill factor was 14° F., and there were 3 in. of new snow. So what? The groundskeepers cleared the field at Riverfront Stadium, and 51,937 fans showed up to watch the world champion Reds open the season by beating the San Diego Padres 5-3. Worries such as an arms agreement with the Soviet Union seemed and were a world away. There were tomatoes to plant (seeds for vegetable gardens were headed for record sales coast to coast), morel mushrooms to find, robins to welcome, the Masters golf tournament to watch. Yes, and income taxes...
Tomorrow will also provide sweet revenge for Chem 20 students as Professor Jim Wuest exchanges his lab apron for gym shorts and a "Cincinnati" T-shirt. Wuest has been running for three years and trained heavily for the past two months. After a 3:04 time in the Silver Marathon in Lowell last month, he modestly aspires to a sub-three-hour effort...