Word: grand
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Orlando Cepeda, the Baby Bull, hit a grand slam home run in the third inning to give the Braves enough runs to win. Phil Niekro won his 22nd game with help from another knuckleballer, Hoyt Wilhelm...
...Risikobereitschaft, or willingness to take risks. Brandt's reform-minded Socialists, with their advocacy of revaluation of the German mark, bridge-building to the East, and greater worker participation in management and profit sharing will be the direct beneficiaries. Their constructive role as a partner in the Grand Coalition has helped them overcome the old fears that the "Sozis" would run wild if they gained power...
Junior Partners. Out of power since 1930, during the Weimar Republic, the Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) has been the runner-up to the Christian Democrats (C.D.U.) in every federal election since 1949. Only 33 months ago, the Socialists left the opposition benches and became junior partners in a Grand Coalition under Christian Democratic Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. This year their pre-election showing has been the most formidable ever...
...high-fidelity manufacturers have now embarked on a drive to prove that four ears are twice as good-at least. Their excuse: quadrisonic sound, pioneered by Acoustic Research, a leading maker of hi-fi equipment. Audio enthusiasts have been jamming themselves into demonstration rooms in New York's Grand Central Station to hear the astonishingly lifelike effect created by four amplifiers, four loudspeakers and a four-track, four-channel tape recorder...
Died. Seymour Weiss, 73, a grand vizier of Louisiana Kingfish Huey Long's political empire; of a heart attack; in Baton Rouge. A onetime New Orleans barbershop manager, Weiss was the man to see about practically everything once his friend Long became Governor in 1928; he ladled out patronage, determined how party funds would be spent -or misspent-and served as Long's most trusted adviser. So entrenched did Weiss become that he remained a power after Long's 1935 assassination-until 1940, when he was finally put behind bars for mail fraud...