Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National League Western division the Cincinnati Reds clinched the championship with a 2-1 victory over the San Diego Padres yesterday. The Reds were led by the powerful bats of Tony Perez and Andy Kosko, who each hit solo home runs. It was the third division title in four years for Cincinnati. Dick Baney, making his first National League start, earned the victory with late help from relievers Tom Hall and Pedro Borben...
...When Cincinnati Clockmaker Joseph Bochenek took his son Chris, 12, to visit George Wallace in Montgomery, it was not to offer the Alabama Governor his political support. Bochenek wanted Wallace's support for his own drive to raise funds for research into spinal injuries and to boost his son's morale. Young Chris lost the use of his legs when a friend accidentally shot him in the spine just five days before the assassination attempt on Wallace. When the two paralytics got together, it was obvious that they were not down in spirits. Counseled Wallace: "The fact that...
...road Aaron draws up to 10,000 additional fans to the host team's ballpark. Last weekend in Cincinnati, the leftfield seats were pregame sellouts. At home, attendance remains woefully low because Atlanta is pre-eminently a football town, because the Braves are nowhere near being pennant contenders and because an Aaron home run is a common occurrence in a stadium that the players call "the launching pad." Nonetheless, the Braves and the city fathers are beating the promotional drums. Giant billboards have been erected to give Aaron's latest homer total. A street and school will...
MAURIE is an unprecedented film -the first full-scale weeper for men. It is the slightly fictionalized history of the relationship between Maurice Stokes, a black basketball player who was named rookie of the year after his first season with the Cincinnati Royals, then was mysteriously paralyzed, and Jack Twyman, a white man and one of the team's stars, who oversaw and financed a ten-year attempt to rehabilitate Stokes. In the end Stokes died, but not before recovering his ability to speak and to work, albeit painfully, with his hands...
...attorneys yesterday discussed the psychological and sociological factors involved in jury selection. Walter C. Beale, of Cincinnati, Ohio, presented a lecture on improving lawyers' opening statements before a jury...