Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilian judges-Chief Judge Robert E. Quinn, 71, a former state trial judge and ex-Governor of Rhode Island; Paul J. Kilday, 65, a Texan who served 22 years in Congress and helped to write the military justice code as a member of the House Armed Services Committee; and Homer Ferguson, 72, a veteran Detroit trial judge who later served two terms as Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan...
...Mele's new faces, he still builds his attack around an oldtimer, Harmon Killebrew, 29, a ham-armed slugger who has hit 288 home runs and is closing in on Babe Ruth's home-run rate: Ruth ticked off a homer for every 11.8 times at bat; Killebrew is rapping one for every 12.9. Moreover, Killebrew gets his homers when they are most needed. In the last inning of the recent series against the Yankees, the Twins were trailing 5-4; with two men out, one man on, and the count at 3-2, Killebrew pounded Pete Mikkelsen...
...JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. Two vacancies on the nine-judge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals-a key court in civil rights cases because it includes Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas-will be filled "very shortly" by an old Johnson friend, Texan Homer Thornberry, and by a former Mississippi Governor (1956-60), James P. Coleman. Thornberry, a federal district judge in Austin since 1963, succeeded Johnson in the House of Representatives in 1948 when Lyndon was elected a Senator. In the House, he was a Johnson-Rayburn-type moderate. Coleman is a segregationist-but far from a rabid redneck...
...Christie's auction house in London (TIME, March 26), Titus was hammered down for $2,234,400, a record price for Britain and only $65,000 less than the historic price that New York's Metropolitan Museum paid four years ago for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer...
Harvard's first run was as honest as the game was long, a huge homer to left center by Dan Hootstein in the second inning. One inning later, a hit and an error put Crimson runners on first and third...