Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Natural. Batting directly behind Mays, in the No. 4 cleanup spot, is the most powerful bateador, Orlando Cepeda, 24, whose booming palo has been tormenting National League pitchers since the start of the season. First Baseman Cepeda is batting .330, leads the National League in hits (with 77), ranks second in home runs (with 15) and runs batted in (with 55). The other Latins are almost as impressive. In his second year up, Puerto Rico's Jose Pagan ranks among the league's sharpest shortstops. Pitcher Juan Marichal, from the Dominican Republic, already has eight victories...
...Director of Columbia's School of Public Health, now on leave to do a cleanup job as Mayor Robert F. Wagner's commissioner of hospitals...
...echelons of the party secretariat. In Moscow, key Communist Party officials from the Soviet Union's 15 republics were summoned for a three-day conference on political and administrative problems. Also trying to straighten out the ideological mess was Leonid Ilyichev, Soviet propaganda boss, who demanded a "decisive cleanup of remnants of the personality cult" and reported that some officials will "stick to the viewpoint that Stalin was a theoretical...
Nkrumah's cleanup is only a cover-up for Ghana's woes. Paced by left-wing extremists, Ghana is racing toward dictatorship and bankruptcy. Opposition to the regime has become explosive. Last week bomb blasts shattered Osagyefo's 1½ times life-size statue outside Parliament...
This newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...