Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President (his old army pal, General Gabriel Paris) with a whole new Cabinet for the Saturday-to-Monday absence, and, as a final precaution, ordered all Bogota bars and taverns closed while he was away...
...have a replacement for their tiring third baseman, Jackie Robinson, for their spry but elderly (36) captain and shortstop, Pee Wee Reese. When the time comes, they may even be able to turn up another outfielder almost as good as Duke Snider. But a substitute for Campy is a dream. To Dodger rooters. 1955 is the year of destiny, and destiny has the bulky shape of Roy Campanella...
...hitting combinations since Ruth and Gehrig. Campy settles into the batter's box with sure confidence-legs spread, left foot in the bucket so that he is half facing the pitcher-and he rattles out base hits, and moves with the swift authority that is the secret dream of American youth...
...from the Milk Route. Roy Campanella has been nurturing that dream ever since he was 15, when he started playing baseball for pay in a North Phil adelphia neighborhood known as Nicetown, where he was born 34 years ago. From his Sicilian father, piano-legged Roy inherited his proportions and a capacity for enjoying hard work. While he supported a wife and five hungry kids on the pro ceeds of a vegetable wagon. John Cam panella still managed to save enough cash to chip in with his brothers and open a chain of neighborhood groceries. From his Negro mother...
...midwinter, and Martin Whitford Marion, manager of the Chicago White Sox, was already lost in a bright dream of spring. His team, he announced with admirable brevity, was going to win the American League pennant. Sportswriters snickered. It would be a close race all right. Maybe the Sox would finish third-after the Yanks and the Indians...