Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fatalistic faith in chance," California's Bishop Gerald Kennedy says of his fellow ministers: "The boys today don't particularly make an issue of it." As for the Catholic Church, it has always held that gambling itself is neutral, that it becomes evil only when it involves excess, damage to one's family or connection with crime. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing says that if Massachusetts passes a lottery bill, he will be the first to buy a ticket...
...White Sox are probably the only team in baseball that has to weigh in for work; a coach guards the scales and prescribes for excess lard. Stanky maneuvers ballplayers as if they were robots and he owned the patents: he has been known to use as many as three pinch hitters for one turn at bat. In his "gogo" offense, even pitchers steal bases, and a batter who reaches first base is considered to be in scoring position. Against Baltimore last week, Chicago Leftfielder Jimmy Stewart scored from first on a single to leftfield-because the Orioles never imagined...
...troubles center in the field it dominates: man-made fibers. As the leading U.S. maker of nylon, Dacron, Orion and several other synthetics, Du Pont depends on textile companies for a third of its sales volume. But the textile industry skidded into a sharp slump this year because of excess inventory, rising imports and falling prices. And that downturn caught chemical companies in the midst of a major expansion of fiber-making plants. One result is that the wholesale price of Dacron has dropped 40% in the past year. The problem, says Copeland, "can well be with...
Chancellor's successor, said USIA director Leonard Marks, will be from the same bracket-"someone who has been earning in excess of $75,000 in broadcasting and is an outstanding newsman known throughout the nation." Marks's coyness produced inevitable speculation that he might mean CBS's Eric Sevareid or Charles Collingwood, NBC's Nancy Dickerson or ABC's Howard K. Smith. Likeliest choice, however, is John Charles Daly, 53, onetime ABC vice president for news and currently the suave moderator of CBS's What's My Line...
...company hopes that it can eventually catch up with its orders. Then perhaps Chairman Josiah Wedgwood, 67, the great-great-great-grandson of the founder, will not be forced to apologize to customers "who have had to suffer the long and vexatious delays owing to orders running in excess of productive capacity...