Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's a marvelous photograph here, incidentally, of Maris returning to the Stadium on Old Timers' Day after a decade of bitterness, still wearing the aircraft-carrier haircut, arms spread wide to the applause. It stands out among the over 100 pictures, including some fine old shots of Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter...
There is no substitute for the agent in the field to provide reporting on the intentions of foreign nations. "You can photograph and intercept all the messages that ultrasophisticated technology allows," says a West German expert. "But these cannot provide the sense of a place, the smell, sound and color that can tell so much." Because of declining morale and fear of leaks, CIA networks overseas have broken down. The agent who works abroad is often on his own. Says Jack Maury, onetime CIA chief of Soviet operations: "You can't just give orders from the top and expect...
After donning the tools of ignorance for the first time. Tyng did indeed go on to outstrip all his predecessors behind the plate. The 1877 season was Tyng's first as a catcher and in the team picture for that year he is holding the mask in the first photograph ever taken of the new accoutrement...
...Governor himself works 13-hour days and also weekends, seemingly oblivious to the normal practices of Alabama politics. He had to be persuaded by aides to pose for his official photograph, and he even canceled a state-paid obituary clipping service, which enabled Wallace to send letters of condolence to the bereaved. James ambles around the statehouse in torn shirts and scuffed shoes. He shows a surprising lack of interest in publicity; last week he neglected to alert most of the statehouse press corps when he made a surprise visit to two prisons and chatted with inmates. Said the blunt...
...suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came in, and then another. With that, the town went into business. For $10 per hole (or $25 for three), a buyer gets a certificate of ownership, a photograph of the hole and an implied promise that it will be filled...