Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal District Judge Lee Ingraham indicated that if Clay failed to reverse his conviction on appeal to higher courts, he would consider reducing sentence to something closer to the average 18 months usually given in such cases. Whatever the final sentence, it appears unlikely that Clay-still indisputably the best...
Fighting the Giants. As weaker operators began to fall out during tortuous negotiations, a consortium consisting of Armour & Co., Continental Oil, and Loeb, Rhoades & Co., and headed by former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, soon emerged as the leading contender. Anderson was a steady visitor to Spain, even won an audience...
At the center of the cast is James Burden Day, a Roosevelt-hating conservative Senator from the Southwest and contender for the presidential nomination. The characters, moving woodenly through a familiar plot about political chicanery, include the usual domineering millionaire publisher, the conniving businessman who keeps Senators in his pocket...
But where do you look to find a successor? One theory is that pennants are won by the men up the middle. But Cleveland's Joe Azcue is the league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory...
Each Sunday night from 7:30 on, in the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, the TV screen is an electronic Valhalla in which Ben Cartwright grapples with the Smothers brothers, Walt Disney with Perry Mason. For millions of viewers, the keenest new prime-time contender is a show-biz nonentity...