Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same old Fenway Park that the fans will be seeing today. In addition to Bob Bolin, Luis Aparicio, Cha Cha Cepeda, and Reggie Smith, some of Fenway's seats got the heave-ho this winter. The grounds crew removed the old wooden slats from the box seats and reserved grandstand seats and replaced them with bright red plastic numbers that undoubtedly will be more comfortable but not as classy...
Eventually, I realized that besides quick change-making and drink-passing, a good coke-man should know when to yell; the loud sales pitch disturbs the box-seat spectators but doesn't bother the grandstand fans. A good vendor never climbs steps either, unless four or five definite sales are waiting. Only the newcomer listens to the kids who yell "How much?" when 35 cents is emblazoned all over...
...Exxon Vice President Roy Baze was publicly humiliated by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington. Baze, an expert on moving and storing oil, expected to be questioned about supplies, but Jackson asked him instead what Exxon's per-share dividends were. Baze did not know, and Jackson made a grandstand show of phoning a Washington stockbroker for the information. Last week an overwrought writer of a letter to the New York Times accused Exxon of "treason" for not supplying the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Middle East
...presidential nomination, took advantage of the inept performance of Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze. When Baze could not recall the size of Exxon's 1972 dividends, Jackson snapped: "I guess we're going to have to start slapping subpoenas on some of you." Then, in a grandstand play, Jackson phoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividend was $3.80 a share...
Like a Las Vegas casino, West Flagler keeps the price of admission minimal. The best grandstand seats cost 750 or 500, and one section is free. But in an "evening of fun," the average fan bets $72. Some of the more affluent, like Businessman José Martinez, can afford to lose repeatedly when they "wheel a Quiniela" for $6-track talk for placing a bet on three combinations of three competitors picked to win, place and show. "You never know," says Martinez. "You can have the best dog in the race and sometimes...