Word: knees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orders, charged others $39 for products that were marked only $3.90. Before long, the computer turned Rodman's once orderly operation into almost total chaos. Teams of IBM technicians spent six months fixing the malfunctioning brain, but by then Rodman had lost a number of accounts and was knee-deep in problems. "The computer," he says, "almost put us out of business." A Boston federal jury convicted the computer and awarded Rodman $53,200 in damages...
...Baseman Don Wert is recovering from a concussion, the result of a scalping in Cleveland last week. Leftfielder Willie Horton (.287, 18 homers) wears a brace to support his weak Achilles tendon. All-Star Catcher Bill Freehan is playing with a sore arm. Outfielder Jim Northrup with a sore knee, and Centerfielder Mickey Stanley with a sore arm plus a sore knee...
...players are charging," says Mickey Stanley. "Every day, it is somebody else who gets the job done. That may sound like 'High School Harry,' but that's the case." In one game against the second-place Cleveland Indians last week, Northrup forgot his aching knee long enough to clout a brace of grand-slam homers and tie a big-league record.* In another, it was Dick Tracewski, a .170 batter, who hit a game-winning homer to beat the Indians 4-1. "Now I have nothing to look forward to for the rest of the year," said...
...campus is cold, compact, and Kafkaesque. Little new has been built on the campus since the 1920's; and its buildings are the repeated module of Italian Renaissance and New England architecture. It's very pretty in the summer. But most of the time students are there, they are knee deep in snow...
...reporters were up against. He began writing about Bobby back in 1964 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Among his more harrowing memories is an interview he conducted in a speeding car. Senator Kennedy was driving with one casual hand while the other banged his knee for emphasis. Barrett, his eyes searching for disaster on the road ahead, had an understandably difficult time taking notes...