Word: phoebus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNally's invincibility, the Orioles are hardly a one-bird flock. Pitchers Tom Phoebus and Jim Palmer have 16 wins against four losses between them. Slugger Frank Robinson has snapped back after a dismal season last year, and is currently the league's second best hitter with 17 home runs and an average hovering around...
...PHOEBUS...
Looking back, it seems almost prophetic that when he was born, on Feb. 28, 1924, in the small tidewater town of Phoebus, Va., he was christened Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (His father, now dead, was a finance officer at a veterans' hospital, and got his name because he was born in New York City in the year of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' 1492 voyage, the week of the dedication of Columbus Circle.) Young Chris grew up in a modest duplex in a tough part of Phoebus, played a good game of sand-lot baseball and dreamed...
...four are: Clopper Almon Jr., instructor in Economics: Phoebus J. Dhrymes, now at the Institute for Mathematical Study in the Social Sciences at Stanford; Elliott J. Berg, instructor in Economics; and Thomas A. Wilson, instructor in Economics...