Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mickey Lolich, left-handed mound ace of the Detroit Tigers. Mickey explains the pot easily. "Big bellies run in my family. All the male Lolichs have them." The cycle fetish and the sinistral fastball derive from a childhood accident. When Lolich was a lad of three in Portland, Ore., his tricycle collided with a motorcycle, which crushed his left shoulder. Although the shoulder healed properly, the doctor gave Mickey throwing exercises to strengthen his arm. The exercises worked so well that now, at 31, Lolich is baseball's premier lefthanded hurler. As for the bikes: "My mother hated motorcycles...
...pleasing some people. Prineville, Ore. (pop. 4,101), has a modest property tax of $1.35 per $1,000 of assessed value. The town happens to own its own 19-mile railway connection to the main line, and makes so much money from it that the city council thought they would give the citizens a break. They proposed a repeal of the property tax. For this benevolent gesture Mayor William P. Holtsclaw was roundly opposed at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and even upbraided on the street. Said the bewildered mayor: "Most of the folks thought that people ought...
...feminine capacity to dispel male anger (also observed in studies of aides in mental wards) may be due to the value system of male criminals: assaults on male authority figures are ranked high. Policemen are often attacked "because it is heroic," says Ronald G. Talney of the Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff's department. But policewomen might avoid such assaults simply because "it is cowardly to attack a woman, even though she is a police officer." Actual incidents seem to support Talney's view: a child-beating suspect who had twice resisted arrest surrendered peacefully when Private Mary Ellen...
...with remarkable zest and facility. The effects achieved are so powerful--and the similarities between them are so striking--that it is difficult to believe that the directors are not trying to say exactly what they seem to be saying. They think they have struck a rich vein of ore buried in the American psyche, and they intend to mine it for all they...
...Portland, Ore., an accountant for the Washington state highway department, Major Burton Davenport, 56, threatened to blow up a Continental Airlines 707 bound for Hawaii unless paid $500,000 from the U.S. Treasury. After an hour, he was talked...