Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is my love," said LeRoy ("Satchel") Paige. "I'm glad to be back to my love." With that simple pronouncement last week, old Satchelfoots signed a contract with the Atlanta Braves, who will use him as a pitching coach for the balance of this season and in 1969. The job will give the ageless Satch time to log another 158 days on a major-league roster, thus qualifying him for a $250-a-month pension...
...Pete was the apple of his father's sporting eye, nobody else was interested in a 5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb. infielder. Nobody, except Uncle Buddy Bloebaum, who just happened to be a Cincinnati scout. At 18, Nephew got his contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited...
...Absence of reflexes. The dilated pupils must not contract when a bright light is shone directly into them. There must be no eye movements in response to pouring ice water into the ears, no muscular contractions after hammer-tapping the tendons of the biceps, triceps or quadriceps...
...soul music, two others have strong feelings about the Doors--John Leone, the strapping singer detests them, while Bob Gass, a soaring organ player loves them. But all of them share a common commitment to being dedicated to their music and have been approached by Vanguard about a recording contract...
...company which flies food into Biafra under contract to the Red Cross, and guns in under contract to the Biafran government (cash in advance), is called North American airlines, and is run by an American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unoffical headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of 'a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...