Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test ban treaty, he used Mr. Khrushchev's own words to emphasize a point, saying that in case of a nuclear exchange, "the living will envy the dead." This not only qualifies him as Fright Peddler No. 2, but also effectively scuttles his own fallout shelter program. The pitch now is that in case of attack, we should all run out and get all the radiation we can, since the survivors will be worse off than the dead...
...Dallas firm called Diamond Electronics has contracts with Detroit automakers to get its stereophonic set installed in demonstrator models. When a prospective buyer goes out for a road test, a tape-recorded pitch begins softly: "You are now driving a masterpiece of precision engineering . . ." Besides the standard rock 'n' roll, folk music, show albums and symphonies, Diamond offers complete foreign language courses on tape. "People can learn a language as they drive along," says Company President Don Gilmore. Other Diamond specialties include children's stories "to keep the kid quiet during trips," go-getting lectures for traveling...
...High School basketball was his game; he won a scholarship to the cage-crazy University of Cincinnati, turned out for baseball just to liven up a dull freshman spring. "I have one problem," Sandy told the coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called for a $14,000 bonus and a salary...
...while it looked like $20,000 too much. His control was atrocious. But because he was a bonus baby, baseball rules prohibited the Dodgers from farming him out for seasoning. So for six years he warmed the bench, pitching only occasionally, compiling a record of 36 wins and 40 losses. Finally, one night in 1960 before a Dodger-Giant game, he buttonholed General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I want to pitch," stormed Sandy, "and you guys aren't giving me a chance." Inquired Bavasi: "How can you pitch when you can't get the side out?" Yelled Koufax...
...wants is the love of another human being, and this he cannot give her-at best, he can give her the emotions of a beast. At the climax of their frustration, she dies of a brain hemorrhage and he batters himself to a bloody pulp on the football pitch...