Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well: two straight National League batting championships (.338 in 1977 and .334 last season), consecutive Gold Glove Awards as the best rightfielder in the league and, last year, the Most Valuable Player award. Most eloquent testimony of all: Willie Stargell, 37, the Pirates' captain and home run leader, claimed no right to salary seniority à la Yastrzemski when Parker's contract was announced. He came, instead, to the signing ceremony to applaud his teammate. In his 17th major league season, Stargell offered this long view on the young star: "Dave is the best in the game...
...become the Second City's first lady. When the votes were counted, Byrne had 82.1% of the vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko, who milked the bestselling Boss from Daley's two decades in office, already refers to the gracious woman . . . young woman . . . girl as "Mayor Bossy...
...Dartmouth College had to cancel classes in response to student protest. The chief issue: charges of racism by Dartmouth's black students and other minorities, who hurled black and red paint at the traditional Winter Carnival Ice Sculpture. "Without tearing something up or hurting someone," said Black Student Leader Donald O'Bannon, "it was the most dramatic thing we could...
...divestiture movement is developing into the Viet Nam issue of the late 1970s," says exiled black South African Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern, and a leader of the campaign to get universities to ditch stock of companies doing business in South Africa. The universities of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, among others, have responded to student demands that such stock be sold to protest South Africa's apartheid policies, while debate over the issue has caused demonstrations at Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. But in an open letter to students last week, Harvard President Derek Bok presented his university...
There are perhaps only two conspicuous examples of old-fashioned "press-lording" left. The political venom in William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader skews New Hampshire's politics, and even the state's closely watched presidential primary. In Michigan, John P. McGoff fired two editors in his small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington...