Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sept. 7, 1967, American League standings may some day rate a niche of their own in baseball's Hall of Fame...
...VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), in which zero is zero, a point is a point, one game of 31 points decides a match, and both spectators and players are spared such dreary marathons as one of the doubles contests at last month's Newport Hall of Fame Invitational. The match lasted 6 hrs. 10 min., and the final score was 3-6, 49-41, 22-20. With that ever-present possibility, it is no wonder that the West Side Tennis Club's 14,000-seat stadium in Forest Hills, N.Y., was one-third empty throughout most...
...general, they use wire services to cover national and international news - to which they give front-page display - while their own reporters cover local events. The papers follow a conservative line, are staunch civic boosters. The Repository has campaigned for the establishment of a professional-football hall of fame in Canton. It has been similarly attentive to the locally based Timken Roller Bearing Co., world's largest tapered roller-bearing manufacturer. "I can't remember the Rep ever speaking out against anything the Timken family wanted," says a Canton businessman. About the harshest criticism leveled at the Ports...
...with only the slightest shadings of muted colors and black-on-black stripes. "I'm just making the last paintings anyone can make," he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas...
...outwitting the rival Taft forces at the Republican Convention. In the resulting Ike landslide, he then ironically lost his own seat to John F. Kennedy, partly because vengeful Taftites voted en masse for J.F.K. But no matter: for the next eight years Lodge earned international fame as Ike's U.N. ambassador, slugging it out verbally with the Russians in a manner that made him a TV hero...