Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitching, not hitting, may be the key. In fact there are more damn good pitchers in this Series than you or I ever saw before. Count'em: Whitey Ford, Luis Arroyo, Ralph Terry, Bill Stafford, Jim Coates, Roland Sheldon, Hal Reniff, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, Bob Purkey, Jim Brosnan, Bill Henry, and Ken Johnson...
...handy documentation of business expenses. Some people who have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims Nate Rosenberg of Alert Car Rental (T-Bird, Cadillac convertibles, Continentals, etc.): "The stars make so much money they can't afford a car. I got 'em all: Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Bob Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Conrad Nagel. It's a million-bucks-a-year business...
...final touch of satire is a ripenorting skirmish in shoot-em-up Western style, with rifles cracking and artillery bombarding, with the Southern mansion blown to bits before our very eyes, and with Thersites treacherously shot dead in the back (as an echo of the earlier slaying of Hector...
...found the President deaf to his impertinent insistence that the U.S. halt military aid to neutral India, got only silence from Catholic Kennedy when he asked for U.S. help in controlling Pakistan's soaring birth rate. (Said Ayub: "We want to be able to make 'em take a pill, then poof, that's that.") But Ayub did not hesitate to tell Kennedy exactly what he thought of Nehru ("People think he's thinking. Actually, he's just in a trance"), and dismissed SEATO as a weak-spined organization, daring only to "send telegrams back...
...showing. "When we are not getting the pitching," says he, "we are getting the hitting. It's the best balanced team I've ever handled." Even so, nobody in the power-packed National League is ready to concede. "It's too early to hand 'em the flag," says Pittsburgh's Murtaugh. Predicts Pirate Trainer Danny Whelan: "The Reds will fold next month. Then either the Dodgers or the Pirates will move in for the kill." Maybe. But Cincinnatians reply with a lusty rendition of the closing refrain...