Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact is that proponents of the rabbit-ball theory had no argument in 1926, and have none now. Says Edwin L. Parker, president of A. G. Spalding Bros., the major leagues' sole baseball purveyors since 1876: "Today's ball and the one that Ruth hit are identical. Period." Nor has the manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn...
...they are winding the rubber in the ball tighter. They must even be using elastic glue, too." Baseball manufacturers huffily denied that souped-up balls are the reason. "There has been no change in the construction of the ball in the last quarter-century," says Spalding President Edwin L. Parker, whose company has made balls for the majors ever since the leagues were formed. "The coefficient of restitution is the same today as it was 25 years ago." Translation: today's ball has no more bounce than the 1936 version...
...shapes up as a battle between Yale's Dave Bain (21.4) and Adrian Metcalfe of Oxford (21.5), and the 120 high hurdles will probably be decided by a matter of inches among Blodgett, Cambridge's John Parker, and Yale's Bill Flippin, all 14.4 performers...
Never in anyone's memory had such strict security measures been clapped on a criminal trial at the Old Bailey in peacetime. Hordes of police cordoned off the sidewalk outside, allowed no one near the courtroom. When the trial began, Lord Chief Justice Lord Parker ordered the doors locked, the windows shuttered. In the dock was George Blake, 38, a British Foreign Service official, who had confessed that for 9½ years he had fed Moscow a steady flow of Britain's closest secrets...
...Soviet contact." Though Blake did not deal with atomic or scientific matters, explained Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, "he had access to information of the very greatest importance." Fact was, Blake was in a position to betray British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. Lord Parker took only 53 minutes to reach his decision. Blake's disloyalty, he commented, "rendered much of this country's efforts completely useless." He then sentenced him to 42 years in prison, the heaviest term handed out by any British court for espionage during peacetime in this century...