Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the rest of the team. Suddenly Martin himself was banging on the door. He was enraged to find his players with the owner. Steinbrenner calmed the group down, and the four men argued until 6 in the morning. Several lineup changes were agreed to: Jackson henceforth would bat cleanup, certain pitchers would rotate every fourth day, Piniella would become the daily designated hitter. One other change: the no-pay salary clause in Martin's contract would be dropped...
...longer strong enough to prevent his fiery young lieutenants from trying to expand Yamaguchi-gumi power into territories held by rival yakuza. As the suspected aggressors in the internecine gangland warfare, Tao-ka's organization has been selected by police as their primary target in the cleanup. Says Seitaro Asanuma, director general of the National Police Agency: "Not until Yamaguchi-gumi is smashed to pieces will the nation accept the sincerity of our police organization...
Electricity was cut off for 25,000 utility customers, and 16,000 phones were knocked out. Those services resumed within 48 hours, but the cleanup would take longer. Miller Nichols, whose father developed Country Club Plaza, slogged through the area in high rubber boots and pledged, "We're gonna bounce back. By Thanksgiving you'll hardly know that anything happened...
...Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, puts on the show at local schools and community meetings -and then asks for cleanup suggestions. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has belatedly appointed a task force of people from seven city and state agencies to investigate Hollywood's problems...
...willing to bet that if the companies whose ships were responsible for the oil spill were forced to assume the high cost of the cleanup, there would be fewer oil spills. DM. Boulay Marshfield, Mass...