Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some observers pick Connecticut as the team to beat. The Huskies have two good pitchers, Ed Baird and Bill Hogerty, and some solid hitting, including George Greer, who was mentioned on several All-America teams last year...
...into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped to Viet Nam; jungle-wise infantrymen are so impressed by their versatility that they use almost any G.I. dodge to pick up extra scopes for their outfits...
...sentiment is being reciprocated by the loan to San Antonio's HemisFair of 13 masterpieces from Spain. The heavily guarded collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish culture is itself a confluence of influences: Latin, Visigoth and Moorish. Even more pertinent...
Convalescence, once a slow and leisurely period, keeps getting shorter. For highly practical reasons, surgeons continue to cut down the time their patients spend recuperating in the hospital. For one thing, the faster a patient goes home, the less likely he is to pick up a secondary infection from others in the hospital. For another, home atmosphere is considered more conducive to healing in many cases. Most pressing these days is the scarcity of hospital beds. The shorter the average hospital stay, the faster a bed becomes available to others...
...Computax, an income tax program that speeds and eases the work for accountants doing corporate or personal tax returns. Another, about to be introduced, is Computicket which will link every kind of entertainment from baseball to ballet to local outlets like supermarkets and enable shoppers not only to pick the seat they want in a matter of seconds but to receive a computerized ticket as well. With only 1% of U.S. computers so far linked to one another v. estimates of 50% within the next decade, Computer Sciences will now be able to use Western Union to broaden the state...