Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). This segment of NBC's magazine-format show features a profile of big-game Conservationist Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's son; an attempt to answer the question of Whatever Happened to Carroll Baker; plus looks at skydiving, computer dating and other features...
...curves with bullwhip fury. In the process, he set a lifetime league record for most hit batsmen (154). This year, the overpowering ace of the Los Angeles Dodger staff proved he had as much guts as the batters who had faced him during the past 13 seasons. He pitched game after game despite an injury deep in his shoulder socket that robbed his arm of its power and left him in agony after every throw. He spent five weeks on the disabled list and completed only one game in twelve starts. But he kept coming back to give it another...
...Show, and he once sang with Milton Berle in a Las Vegas nightclub. He also owns a rich stable of race horses, two of which he keeps on his Hidden Hills ranch in the San Fernando Valley. That enterprise helped make him one of the richest ballplayers in the game. In fact, by 1966 he was in so comfortable a financial position that he and Koufax were able to hold out for an unprecedented dual contract for $1,000,000 over three years (Drysdale eventually settled for a one-year, $115,000 contract...
...game is about the same every year. Around August, the auto ads push a little harder and run more frequently. "Get a red-hot Buick at a red-hot price." Or: "The same performance. The same luxury. The same Chrysler. But at a final clearance price." Carmakers offer trips to Hawaii or Puerto Rico for the most successful salesmen and their wives; the salesmen smile more and persist longer with customers. That is what happens during the annual automobile "cleanup, when automen are anxious to get rid of last year's cars and prepare the public for the coming...
...essay on the great 19th century explorers, Greene writes: "The imagination has its own geography." It also has its own chronology. For Greene, his real world was defined by childhood and early sorrow, and nothing much has happened since he was 14. "A child knows most of the game," he says reflectively, "it is only an attitude to it that he lacks. He is quite well aware of cowardice, shame, deception, disappointment...