Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Juicy Brucey" is a pleasant, articulate, ascetic-looking man of 31, thin, blond and balding. He has the disconcerting ability to talk in a completely calm and normal voice for the duration of a record, then hold up a hand in warning, switch on his mike, talk with raised pitch and volume for half a minute in perfect disc jockey jargon, put a new record on, turn off the mike, and ask, "Now what were we talking about?" When I marveled at his completely transformed on-the-air personality, he said a little defensively, "It beats working...
...business executive named Toby Jessel, 31, ran a hard-hitting campaign, hopping over hedges to pump housewives' hands and playing on the themes nearest to their hearts-chiefly rising prices and taxes. By contrast, Labor's Kevin McNamara, also 31, seemed colorless and retiring, limited his campaign pitch mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott. 27, entered the race. One of the new breed of folksong-singing Britniks, whose counterparts are American college antiwar...
Water Through a Rag. Some of the marines barely had time to pitch their tents when they were sent into their first major battle. On a peninsula below Chu Lai, 5,000 marines, aided by rocket-firing Cobra helicopters, jet fighters and naval guns from Task Force 77, killed close to 700 guerrillas. But this, they soon learned, was Viet Nam. No sooner did Operation Starlight end, said an exasperated officer, than the surviving Viet Cong "seeped back in like water through...
...support of Jersey City's present Democratic boss, John V. Kenny-even to the point of naming Kenny's son-in-law to a $20,000-a-year post as administrator of the city medical center. In a campaign against Case, Whelan's pitch would be his familiarity with the problems of New Jersey's cities. "The ills of our cities are the greatest internal problem America has today," says he. "The cities need a greater voice than they have now. The city has to be saved. If we fail, God doesn't know what...
...When he wanted to move forward, he merely moved the stick forward; when he wanted to go into reverse, he pulled the stick back; he moved it right or left for sideward motion. In his right hand, he clasped a notched pistol grip that controlled smaller thrusters used to pitch, yaw or roll the Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide rule and a heavily...