Word: kuhn
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Blacks? Chicanos? Women's Liberationists? Nope. Old folks. The latest protest group making waves is a doughty band called the Gray Panthers, founded in Philadelphia by a curt, spry lady named Margaret Kuhn, 67, who definitely does not weave scatter rugs or play shuffleboard. She and five chums, all retired church workers of different denominations, set up headquarters in Philadelphia's Tabernacle Church last year. Their basic goals: to develop a new life-style and a new base for the elderly...
WILLIAM T. KUHN...
...traded Ken ("the Hawk") Harrelson, the American League's Player of the Year, to the Cleveland Indians, Woolf craftily advised the flamboyant outfielder to "retire," on the grounds that the move would jeopardize the Hawk's business interests in Boston. In a subsequent meeting with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Woolf worked out a "substantial compensation" for his client's supposed business losses. Harrelson promptly unretired. "When we went to New York," Woolf proudly explains, "the sport world didn't understand the importance of a star's activities off the field. When we left, they knew contracts...
...said, were too slow, too long, too many and too out of pace with the revved-up times. The only trouble with 1968 was that it was a "Year of the Pitcher." There was nothing really wrong with baseball that a few booming home runs wouldn't cure. Bowie Kuhn, who was appointed commissioner of baseball after the 1968 season, conspired to "restore the balance between offense and defense." The strike zone was tightened and the mound lowered. In addition, both leagues added two teams and divided into two divisions, thus doubling the number of possible pennant contenders. The results...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum (B.R.) has finally pulled out some representative works from its basements filled with Bauhaus archives. Since 1948, at the instigation of Charles Kuhn (B.R. Curator 1932-68) and the presence of Walter Gropius as Chairman of the Department of Architecture, the Museum has been collecting Bauhaus items-from class notes to textiles. The Museum's present curator, John David Farmer, with the help of two design consultants, Peter Kemble and Lynn Yudell, has arranged an attractive yet small package of the Busch Bauhaus...