Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the infielders to get cold or bored behind me"), Koosman throws from a short windup, relies on just two pitches: a steaming fastball and a tantalizing slow curve. He never played high-school baseball, but pitched for Army and semi-pro teams while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1964. "My catcher was a fellow named John Lucchese," recalls Jerry, "whose father was an usher at Shea Stadium. He told his dad he had a pretty good pitcher, and his dad told the Mets. They sent a guy out to scout me, and he offered...
...fastest-rising female star, and is currently on view in the U.S. in three thoroughly dissimilar films. Benjamin is a frivolous froth of a costume piece, dedicated to the proposition that upper-class sex in 18th century France was frisky, witty, pretty and piquant. The Young Girls of Roche fort, a disappointing follow-up to Jacques Demy's ethereal The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, is a treacly dollop of banality. But Belle de Jour is Bufiuel...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "My Name Is Children" studies the learning experiences of two children at the progressive Nova School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where students are exposed to a technologically advanced library, games that illustrate the techniques of modern propagandists, the audio-lingual study of foreign languages, and training in geometry and algebra from kindergarten...
...Bengal Lancer-Gunga Din-style movie being shot in California. This is his big chance, but he blows it-first with his bugle, when he wrecks a scene by continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood's blackest blacklist. It is inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer...
Wayne Hansen, editor of Avatar, spent two hours on the stand yesterday explaining the philosophy of Avatar. "We're a 'family' of 50 or 60 young people who live together at Fort Hill in Roxbury. We're centered around the personality and ideas of Mel Lyman, who embodies the highest philosophical ideals," he said. Kennedy's concern for the educational situation in the District of Columbia. He created the Chase Commission, which recommended the establishment of a federally-sponsored college in the District. Congress, which controls the financial affairs of the District, allocated funds for a university and appointed...