Word: kuhn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philip A. Kuhn '54, known to East Asian historians at Harvard for his book, "Rebellion and Its Enemies," will teach four courses on modern China next year, including Fairbank's old course, History 1830, which has not been taught for two years...
When the gas spread across nearby Route 231, it looked at first like fog to Richard Kuhn, who was driving home to New York from a skindiving vacation in Florida. Then his van stalled and he got a whiff of the searing vapor. Kuhn strapped on his scuba air tank and walked out of the death cloud to safety. Another motorist, Donald Sellers of Tallahassee, a veteran of Army chemical-warfare training, recognized the gas as chlorine and told his wife to get to the floor of the car, where there was still breathable air. "We were both vomiting...
...Vida blue? The Oakland Athletics star pitcher had hoped to leave his losing team (last year's record: 63-98) and join the talent-heavy Cincinnati Reds. But Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who nixed the plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests...
...While Kuhn was invoking legal intangibles, the 18 electors on the Old Timers Committee were waiving the ironclad rule that a player must have competed in the big leagues for at least ten seasons to be voted into the Hall. Joss died of spinal meningitis in 1911 after having pitched for the Cleveland Indians for only nine seasons. The committee decided to ignore the letter of the law in Joss's case, in view of Addie's credentials. His career earned-run average of 1.88 is the second lowest of all time. In 1907 he won 27 games while losing...
Around the same time Kuhn was dispensing justice, golf's Elysian Fields, previously untrod by the court bailiff, was becoming a battlefield of lawsuits. The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) recently decided to revoke a ruling that entitled every past winner of U.S. Open or PGA Championships from having to qualify before entering a tournament. The aging winners of these two foremost tournaments are now bringing suit against the PGA, and the list of plaintiffs includes such illustrious names as Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen, Ken Venturi, Don January and Dave Marr...