Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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International Pastime. As it happened, Fidel Castro seemed about as dismayed by the latest skyjacking as the U.S.'s Jack Kennedy; with U.S. indignation running at fever pitch, continued aeronautical piracies could wind Castro up in a disastrous (for him) shooting war with the U.S. Aware of this, Cuban officials, though they arrested Cadon, made no effort to keep the DC-8 when it landed in Havana. They offered the passengers daiquiris, sandwiches, and music by a strolling trio before they flew back to Miami. Moreover, Castro offered to trade an Eastern Air Lines Electra, skyjacked earlier (TIME...
...Johnson City, Coach Joe Lucco has put Jones to work in relief assignments. "Mike has a strong arm," he explains, "but we're just nursing him along. We don't let him pitch more than 70 balls at a time. Then he gets four days of rest." Object: to have Jones ready for the big league after several more seasons of seasoning. His coaches think that shy Mike Jones will make...
...wrists and shoulders with a daily regimen of weight lifting and calisthenics, spent hours exercising with a homemade contraption-a lo-lb. weight tied to a broom handle. Wherever he played for the money, he painstakingly stalked the course first, making observations and carefully noting down the pitch of every green...
Mauricio Kagel: TransiciÓn II (Time). With its suddenly splatted chords, its plocks and thunks and harplike glissandos. Argentine-born Composer Kagel's piece for piano, percussion and magnetic tapes suggests a very drunk fraternity pianist trying to play Stardust in pitch darkness, occasionally mashing his fingers with the piano lid. Weirdly compelling, but likely to make few converts to the electronic school...
...sent half its graduates to college, boasted among its alumni Actor William Powell, Singer Gladys Swarthout, and even baseball's redoubtable Casey Stengel. But after World War II, Central's once prosperous white neighborhood rapidly turned black. When Central integrated in 1955, racial tension reached such a pitch that police cars haunted the premises. One sergeant predicted "a lot worse situation here than they had in Little Rock...