Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumni and their families are divided into seven groups--from Classmates and Wives, with headquarters at the Hasty Pudding Club Bar, to Second, Third, and Fourth Graders, with head-quarters at the Fessenden School in West Newton...
...reasoning behind the moves was something less than reassuring. In the National League, Milwaukee lost its bid for a franchise because, as League President Warren Giles explained, "it is only 90 miles away from two major-league clubs in Chicago." San Diego is located little farther from Los Angeles (the Dodgers) and Anaheim (the Angels), but it got a team - because Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley wanted to reward a friend: E. J. ("Buzzie") Bavasi, who will take over as president of the San Diego club after eleven years as the Dodgers' general manager. Dallas and Fort Worth...
Hardly more logical was the Amer ican League's decision to split in two. "Nobody," explained one club owner, "wants to finish twelfth in a twelve-team league." But the way the divisions are set up, two clubs could wind up hurting in first. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are assigned to the league's western division, along with two expansion teams - in Kansas City and Seattle - and the lackluster Oakland Athletics and California Angels. They will play 21 fewer home games against the more attractive easte:rn teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York...
...declares: "Notoriously, the sensuous, ecstatic translinguistic apprehension of the plenum can collapse in a terrible, almost instantaneous plunge into the void of negative silence." Actually, the ads that are stuffed into the box are as entertaining as anything else. "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel," asks the Sierra Club, fighting a dam downstream from the Grand Canyon, "so tourists can get nearer the ceiling...
...Stevens, 20, an impulsive senior at fashionable all-girl Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., had a comfortable up bringing in affluent Greenwich, Conn. She attended Rosemary Hall, an expensive private girls' school, enjoyed the social life at The Belle Haven Club, to which her father, the president of a local radio station, belongs. But, she says, "I never realized how prejudiced I was. In Greenwich the blacks are all maids or something similar, and you don't have to think about them because you've put them in a category." Like many in the Class of '68, she has since...