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...continue to win-at the end of last week they had a precarious hold on first place-is a tribute to the players' spirit as much as to their skill. "We win because we have guys who love the challenge," explains Third Baseman Bando. "We have a nucleus of gutsy players who don't know how to lose." That nucleus includes Shortstop Bert Campaneris, Leftfielder Joe Rudi, Pitcher Catfish Hunter, Reliever Rollie Fingers, Bando and, of course, Jackson...
With a core of experienced prep school players forming the nucleus of her 25-woman squad, Coach Quinby looks forward to an exciting first season. "The newcomers to the game are picking it up very quickly," she said. "The problem is that no one on the team really likes to throw the ball at other players... they will learn that...
...BEGINNING of the 1968-1969 school year, a small group of conservative professors, most of them tenured and in the Social Sciences, had begun to meet now and then at each other's houses. They were the nucleus of what was to become the Faculty's conservative caucus (one leader of the caucus was John T. Dunlop, then Wells Professor of Political Economy and later to become dean of the Faculty), and had begun to meet in response to what they considered threats to the University...
...will show up in Fenway this year with a lot of new faces. Among them will be pitchers Rick Wise, Reggie Cleveland and Juan Marichal. Marichal figures to be of little help in the long run, but Wise and Cleveland form the nucleus of what should be a strong crew. Both are proven, both are young...
Within a year, Morgan had assumed leadership of the ACLU's Atlanta office, which became a nucleus for ACLU activity in southern civil rights cases during the sixties. From that springboard, Morgan headed the defense in Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which established a precedent for federal intervention in state reapportionment schemes--specifically on the principle of one man, one vote. He also argued White v. Crook (1966), which ended the exclusion of women and blacks from juries. The latter case was the first in the current series of constitutional arguments for women's rights...