Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PHILADELPHIA--The team payroll rivals that of Exxon's board of directors, but the mound staff has too many weaknesses for the Phils to win more than 90 games...
...Philadelphia fans will turn out in record numbers to see Pete and cheer for their first pennant since 1950. Rose, apparently, has fielding skills akin to those of Philadelphia's long line of horrendous first basemen (who can forget Dick "Dr. Strange-glove" Stuart...
Sure, there's Bowa, the Bull, Schmidty, Maddox, Bake, Boon, and newcomer Trillo, but a lack of depth and a rotation that is bordering on collapse will hurt the defending division champs. And, anyway, when hasn't a Philadelphia team fizzled in the clutch...
DIED. John McLean Clifford, 74, former president of Curtis Publishing whose frugal reign failed to resuscitate the financially ill company, leading to the 1969 demise of its flagship magazine, the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. A lawyer, Clifford became president of the Philadelphia company in 1964, inheriting bank debts totaling $37 million. Though he showed a small surplus in 1966, he was unable to stem further losses and was ousted...
...have spoken often with many of the Harvard delegates, and I spoke extensively to students from other campuses at the conference. My view of the mixed results of the conference is a commonly-held one. As the letter's authors point out, 23 Harvard students went down to Philadelphia; seven signed the letter attacking my view of the conference's outcome. What do the other 16 think? Perhaps the Harvard organizers should check with their own delegates before they go running off with the bit between their teeth...