Word: grams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What this team needs is color." He spent $411,000 renovating Kansas City's Municipal Stadium, painting it yellow, turquoise and orange, then boasting: "I may not have the best team, but I sure have the sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed...
...plane's pilot, Peter Gram, of West Action, Mass., had called his base at 10:40 a.m. to report that the engines were losing power; fifteen minutes later, the plane crashed and both officers were killed...
Brewing the stuff is no simple matter. First, the water must be distilled, redistilled and further purified to remove all contaminants. Then each of 18 amino acids must be weighed out, to the thousandth of a gram, and dissolved. With the same micrometric accuracy, 16 vitamins are added, plus glucose, eleven salts, and ethyl linoleate-a fatty-acid substance. Finally, flavor is added. So far, only fruit flavors have proved practical. An attempt to give the volunteers a ration with a smoked-ham flavor failed because of interaction with the amino acids...
Congratulations to the farmers- we didn't know they were of such fine gram...
...command the efforts of his diocese-which comprises roughly the eastern half of Massachusetts-to meet the new religious needs of inner Boston. He wants to expand the church's chaplaincy services to universities in the Boston area, and thinks that the church should develop a pro gram of chaplains for industry to bridge the gap between religion and the workingman. "The church," he says, "should try to make religion relevant to the needs of all kinds of people. The church is not a sect organized around a particular doc trine or Biblical text. It is a great fellow...