Word: kuhn
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...Long Island beaches instead of in the dugout. Anderson lied when he answered, "I'm not here to see that particular people get in the game. I am here to beat the other team." Mays was added to the squad as a fan-pleaser by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn...
Died. Frederick Marcus Warburg, 75, sportsman, philanthropist, and for 42 years an internationally minded senior partner and so-called "foreign minister" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of Wall Street's oldest and most powerful banking and investment firms; of heart disease; in Winchester...
Aaron is, in fact, being offered more assistance than Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn thinks is proper. The commissioner became loudly indignant when five National League pitchers said in an interview that they would be happy to enter the record books with Aaron by "grooving" the history-making pitch. Aaron is not looking for charity; what he wants is understanding. He is concerned about "pressure from the stands," from the fans "who expect me to hit a home run every time I come to bat. I wish they would understand that...
...Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the man who helped devise the controversial designated-hitter rule, has worked up another idea to give new punch to the old game. He wants umpires to take a cooler attitude toward the heated attacks of players and managers who dissent from a call. Free and open discussion, says Kuhn, is "the American way." Though Kuhn has not yet specified what indignities short of an uppercut should now be endured in the name of free speech, the new permissiveness might help revive the declining art of umpire baiting. Take the case of Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky...
Heisenberg's and Stent's pessimistic prophecies are widely disputed. Many scientists, in fact, see very drastic changes on the horizon. They frequently invoke a model of scientific advance proposed by Historian Thomas Kuhn, who argues in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions that science is not cumulative, but that it collapses and is rebuilt after each major conceptual shift. Paradigms is the word he uses for those overreaching models and theories according to which each new era of science conducts its normal, day-to-day operations. Copernicus, for example, established a new paradigm of science with his heliocentric...