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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional ballplayers are relative newcomers to this sort of labor dispute. While the association leaders argued, its members were hardly demonstrating true trade-union solidarity. Last week, torn between duty to teammates and job security, a few began to bolt. Catcher Jerry Grote, for instance, said that he backed the boycott but, since he had signed his contract with the New York Mets "some time ago," he felt it only proper that he should report to training camp. "If it had been any one of the 23 other teams," he quickly added, "I wouldn't have signed. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Strike One | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

Jansky's work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: View from the Second Window | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...boys will tell you about their high-scorer, Pete Cook's little brother John, who leads the Ivy League with 18 points, and about his line-mates, Jim Hyland and Perry Hall. They will tell you about their starting center, the Great--or as it is sometimes written, Grote--Hugh Scott, whose wings are named Bill Miller and Dave Hersey...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Sextet May Clinch Ivy Title Tonight Against Princeton in Last Home Game | 2/28/1961 | See Source »

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