Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game of the 1934 championship between St. Louis and Detroit, Medwick was spiked by the Tiger third baseman and responded in kind, provoking a legendary riot. At inning's end, Tiger fans peppered left fielder Ducky with so many pies, vegetables and candied apples that he had to be yanked from the game...
...writing works for, respectively, the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Each orchestra is committed to play not just the work it has commissioned but all other five works. A similar round robin will involve seven orchestras in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Washington (the National...
...local alumni recruiters working for the Harvard Clubs of major metropolitan cities who for some reason believe that Harvard is admitting unqualified black applicants in favor of what they say are more qualified white applicants. Some alumni representatives recruiting for Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., New York City, Detroit, Chicago, New Jersey, Delaware and Indiana--areas with large black populations where applications have decreased this year--are engaged in "an active effort to discourage minority students from applying here." David L. Evans, associate dean of Harvard admissions, said last week. And the alumni recruiters from Detroit and Delaware contacted after Evan...
Harvard's record-breaking high jumper Mel Embree, competing despite a knee injury, finished a disappointing ninth in this weekend's NCAA indoor track meet at Detroit's Cobo Arena...
...director of the OCS-OCL. Fisher makes $28,000 a year--$8000 less than his salary at the top of the civil service, and he does not have the notoriety he had, say, when he forced all-white Warren, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, to integrate its work force in 1969. Neither of those perquisites--money or notoriety--is as important to Fisher as the sense that he is dealing with big issues, and he is pleased with his work at 54 Dunster Street. "In general a job is pretty exciting if you can catch a couple of hours...