Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit's Joe Coleman shut out the Athletics, 3-0, hurling 14 strike-outs to break the playoff record of 12 set by Baltimore's Jim Palmer...
...campaign, preferably in October; Republicans want to get the case out of the way well before the election, but also wished to avoid conflict with their convention last week. Meantime, General William Westmoreland has retired from the top job, and Army Vice Chief of Staff General Bruce C. Palmer Jr. has been serving as chief, waiting for the announcement. "It's an unprecedented case," says one angry Army general. "It's hard on Abe and it's goddam hard on the Army that's been waiting for him and needs...
...green, Trevino lofted a 30-ft. chip that rolled into the cup to save a par. Nicklaus had bogeyed the 16th, Jacklin bogeyed both of the final holes, and the Merry Mexican, crying, "I'm the greatest chipper in the world!", became the first golfer since Arnold Palmer (1961-62) to win two straight British Opens. Although Nicklaus lost his glorious quest, Bobby Jones would agree that, on the bonnie Muirfield moors, both he and Trevino struck resonant tunes of glory...
Passim inhabits the old Club 47 at 47 Palmer St. (it's the narrow street between the Coop's main store and the annex). Passim is a combination bookstore and coffeehouse with entertainment. The entertainment runs mostly to rising troubadours-not quite folk music, but quite definitely singer-guitarists. Rosalie Sorrels is playing this week, twice a night, at 8:30-10:30. Their cover charges range from $2-$2.50, and their phone number...
...socially conscious corporation, Polaroid is also, as Palmer puts it, "a choice target." In October 1970, a dozen black-militant employees tacked up posters on Polaroid bulletin boards accusing the company of supporting apartheid in South Africa by allowing its cameras and film to be used in internal passports and by paying much lower wages there to blacks than whites. The charges turned out to be embarrassingly accurate. Even though the Polaroid operation in South Africa is owned by an independent distributor rather than by the parent corporation, Land was deeply hurt by the employee protest. He decided...