Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, July 22 1969 ALL-STAR BASEBALL GAME (NBC, 7:30 p.m. to conclusion). A centennial salute to the national sport from Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, with pre-game cheers offered by Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek and Mickey Mantle...
...make any adjustments in your game after you dropped the first set?", Stolle was asked...
...Stolle had just won his second three-set singles match at the U.S. Pro champion ships. He had won it beautifully, rebounding from a crushing 6-3 loss in the first set to shut off Holmberg's excellent placement game with 6-4 and 6-2 triumphs in the following two. Several Boston writers, eager for copy, were tentatively urging questions, trying to make the usually silent Stolle open...
...many cases, however, the game of catch-up threatens to turn into an inflationary game of leapfrog. The 49% increase achieved by Lorain construction workers was intended to bring their pay and benefits by next summer up to levels prevailing in nearby Cleveland. But Cleveland building unionists, seeking to restore their primacy, now vow to press for a still larger raise in negotiations next spring...
...Joiner, then a septuagenarian wildcatter, opened up the great East Texas oilfields in 1930 when he brought in his gusher, Daisy Bradford No. 3. Legend has it that soon afterward he lost oil leases worth $100 million in a three-day card game. "Anything you hear about the boom towns won't be an exaggeration," says H. L. Hunt, the multimillionaire, who remembers that holdup men were so common that he and his partners would always walk single file and 16 feet apart when they went to town. The reason, he explains, was that "the bandits wouldn...