Word: gene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kaline, Carl Yastrzemski, Lou Brock; 120. 96, Ninety-six, South Carolina; 121. Bob Gibson; 122. Dave DeBusschere; 123. Dick Groat; 124. Tim Stoddard; 125. Cal Hubbard; 126. Bill Haller; 127. Bill Valentine. Al Salerno: 128. Larry Barnett; 129. Emmett Ashford; 130. Bill Klem; 131. Joe Cronin, $250,000; 132. Gene Conley, Pumps i.e., Green, fly to Israel...they were found drunk at the airport; 133. Theodore S. Williams; 134. Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio...the award was presented by midget Eddie Gaedel; 135. Don Drysdale had pitched his sixth consecutive shutout; 136. Carlos May--had his thumb shot off in Marine...
...regular tap lessons, frequently practicing his steps before a mirror to make certain his buck-and-wings are smooth. Back home or in Washington, the Senator works out to the strains of such golden oldies as Sentimental Journey and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly he is not. But, then, what do Fred and Gene know about marking up Senate bills or pursuing points of order...
...Mark Ptashne, 39. In 1967 the Harvard molecular biologist detected a molecule, called a "represser," that regulates the way a gene functions, possibly a key in the study of cancer. Ptashne was majoring in philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore., when he became fascinated by a theory about represser molecules and switched to chemistry in his senior year. During the Viet Nam War, Ptashne was deeply involved in antiwar politics at Harvard and went to the extent of lecturing at the University of Hanoi. But he became disillusioned with leftist politics in 1976 when some radicals and others tried...
...from Philadelphia, he will be tricked by con men, be friended by a lonesome bank robber, roasted by the desert sun, frozen by mountain storms, captured by Indians, and from sea to shining sea, he will cause wise men to marvel at his unparalleled and in exhaustible nitwittedness. With Gene Wilder as the woodenheaded rabbi and Harrison Ford as the lovable bank robber, what could go wrong...
...Frisco Kid just misses being very good, perhaps because although Wilder is funny and endearing, we never quite believe in the character he plays. He is not really a pure Polish rabbi, he is Gene Wilder doing bits. We are asked to laugh at all too human failings, as we laugh at Tevye's in Fiddler on the Roof, but through some lapse of direction or acting, we are never really shown a man. - John Skow