Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Left-hander Jim Keyte, the aspirin-chucking sophomore from Los Angeles, turned in a tremendous cold-weather pitching performance for Harvard. Keyte fired a five-hitter and struck out eight in eight innings, but more importantly, may have established himself as the lefty starter that the Harvard pitching staff so needs...
Despite the final result, Keyte's outing was anything but snakebitten. "Jim pitched well down in Florida, but the one game he started we gave up four unearned runs also," coach Alex Nahigian said after the game...
...fired utilities and factories to convert not to coal but to natural gas. This was to have been only a short-term move to help soak up the gas glut, but it created the misleading impression that coal was not the Administration's favorite fuel after all. Asserts Jim Larson, president of Energy Fuels Corp., Colorado's largest coal producer: "There is a simple lack of leadership. From where I sit, you just have to wonder what in hell is going on back there in Washington." The industry's biggest problem is that environmental laws have made...
...tape ends in a long period of silence broken only by mournful music that is made more eerie as the tape recorder's batteries seem to run down. The sound stops before the crack of the pistol shot that killed Jim Jones, presumably fired by his own hand...
...called the press conference, he said, to charge that the U.S. Government was withholding a tape recording that would show that no one had coerced the members of the Peoples Temple colony in Guyana into killing themselves. On the contrary, contended Michael Prokes, 32, who had been one of Jim Jones's top aides, the tape would prove that "they chose to die because it was an act of courage and a commitment to their beliefs...