Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carbo's shot was just the end of the first movement, however. A couple more crescendoes and a grand finale were yet to come. In the bottom of the ninth, Cincinnati outfielder George Foster threw out Denny Doyle at home plate when Doyle tried to score from third on a pop fly. In the top of the eleventh, Red Sox rightfielder Dewey Evans robbed Joe Morgan of a home run with a reeling, leaping catch that Reds' manager Anderson called the best he had ever seen...
Roberts, meanwhile, who held a barely comforting but nevertheless upper hand in the early sixties, when Finney could only rankle at his own inhibitions, must now suffer the humiliation of seeing her husband swing free and appear, at least, to be having a grand old time. The director, Anthony Page, attaches time tags to each of the film's sequences without pushing the point, but the message comes across nonetheless: in the period after marital hypocrisy had been declared taboo but before women began to really assert their rights, a housewife who had surrendered her identity to her husband faced...
...economic problems and policies. Said Harvard's Otto Eckstein, a liberal member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I've got to teach freshman economics on Monday and I'd be hard put to find something useful in the debate to teach them. The candidates just completely missed a grand educational opportunity." Yale's Robert Triffin, another member of TIME'S Board, found the debate "desperately dull and desperately uninfor-mative." A top industrial economist was even harsher: "Neither of them would have passed Economics." Perhaps because they were intent on winning political points, both men seemed shallower...
Still, the friendly man from Grand Rapids has not let the White House go to his head. He would never experiment-as Richard Nixon briefly did -with dressing up the guards in comic-opera uniforms in the hope of evoking grandeur in the European manner...
...coaching football and boxing at the university for three years before he was finally granted admittance. Once in a classroom, he grimly held his own, graduating in the upper third of his class. The first time he ran for public office -winning his congressional seat from Grand Rapids in 1948-he loved to campaign, to talk with people, relax with people, simply to be with people...