Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much gold, technical virtuosity, brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle, an affair of national pride, purpose and prestige that so far has cost the competitors, winners and losers combined, an estimated $50 million-with no guarantees on the investment except that somebody would win and somebody else would lose...
...then collapses utterly under its built-in shortcomings and the pressures of the pennant race. But there's something very different about the Red Sox, who finished a half-game out of last place last year and were rated 50-to-1 shots by the Las Vegas sporting gentlemen this spring. The Red Sox are for real...
Scoring from First. "A manager's job," says Stanky, "is 90% public relations and 10% managing. My responsibility is to entertain the gentlemen of the press, radio and television, make up the line-up card, then fall asleep on the bench and let the boys play. After a while, some player wakes me up and says, 'Skip, we just won the game 5-4.' " There may once have been a manager who ran his team that way-the description somehow sounds familiar-but it certainly was not Eddie Stanky...
Burden of Reconstruction. It was in the course of a Harvard Commencement Day address by then Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall that the plan was officially born. "I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious," began Marshall in his precise, low-key style. "The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for foreign food and other essential products-principally from America -are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social and political deterioration...
...letter addressed to the "Gentlemen of 1970." Monro in his foot-stamping style said. "If a student is stupid enough to misuse his time here fooling around will illegal and dangerous drugs, our view is that he should leave the college...