Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repetto's battery-mate, Phil Haughey, will bat eighth. Haughey strengthened his position as starting catcher by getting one hit and two runs batted in against M.I.T. Earlier in the season, coach Norman Shepard experimented with Botsford behind the plate, presumably in order to bolster the team's hitting attack...
...greatest point of concern in Washington was what would develop in NATO. The British White Paper came on the day that General Lauris Norstad and his top aides were observing NATO's eighth anniversary, and the question that immediately presented itself was: Will the British decision start a chain reaction for reduction of forces among the other NATO allies, e.g., France and Italy? In the new distribution of power, there would be a new and different premium on the West German ground forces, whose General Hans Speidel has just taken over as Norstad's commander of allied land...
...Louis had the Cardinals and Budweiser and the zoo. And it also had the blues. Once (1870) the third largest city in the U.S., it had slipped down to eighth. The city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near-slum, and no new office building had been put up in 25 years. The municipal budget was deep ($4,200,000) in the red. Downtown traffic was chaotic, industry was pulling out, property values and business activity were dropping; e.g., city retail sales, up almost everywhere else, were down 10% from 1948. Said a St. Louis cabbie of that dismal time...
...strongman's Venezuelan command post is a comfortable apartment on the eighth floor of an apartment building in a Caracas residential neighborhood. Protected from unwanted visitors by Venezuelan Seguridad National guards in the lobby downstairs and on the street outside, Perón works on comeback plans twelve hours a day, openly confers with visiting plotters. In his off moments, he strolls through a nearby park or motors through the countryside with his roommates, a blonde actress named Isabelita Martinez, a black poodle named Canela, and a white poodle named Picha. A frequent guest is Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, Venezuelan...
M.I.T. won the Sharpe Trophy with a score of 85 points. Brown was second with 79, Coast Guard third with 77, and Harvard fourth with 75. Trailing these were Dartmouth, 60 points; Trinity, which had 54 points, and the University of Rhode Island with 53. The eighth team, Yale, failed to appear...