Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...method of illumination: the graphic arts. One is the cover itself, the first for TIME by California Artist Gerald Gooch, who, having once aspired to a career in professional baseball, approached his commission with zest. His nine sequential oil studies of Marichal in the act of making a single pitch are a rare example of an artist catching this kind of action. "You will notice," says Gooch, "that the three panels from upper right to lower left, in a diagonal line through the center, sum up the action of the pitch. It's sort of a slow-motion sequence...
...months of waiting were over, the candidates had made their last pitch, the military disappeared into the barracks for a day. After one of the bitterest and bloodiest years in the country's turbulent history, some 1,200,000 Dominicans finally went to the polls last week for their second free election since 1924. Forecasters had bet on a close result. Instead, Moderate Joaquin Balaguer, 59, won in a landslide, defeating Leftist Juan Bosch, 56, by 745,700 votes to 487,600-almost the same margin by which Bosch himself won the presidency...
Ever since they got together on the project in 1962, British and French plane builders have been boasting that their 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde would open the era of supersonic air transport. Now the pitch has changed slightly. Last week, speaking at an aviation-writers convention in Manhattan, British Aircraft Corp. Chief Engineer William Strang scratched a line in his text that touted the Concorde as "the world's first supersonic transport," settled for a declaration that "the Concorde will not fail...
They also found that musical instruments or even human whistling could activate the equipment. Unfortunately, one of their roommates, often annoyed by the noise of the telephone experiments, found that by whistling at a certain pitch he could disconnect whatever call they had completed...
...Pittsfield, Mass., farm club in the Class AA Eastern League-where he hit .319, with 25 homers in 140 games. Batting in the big leagues, he allows, is easier in some ways than batting in the minors: "In the minors, you never know what pitch to expect or where to expect it. Up here, where the pitchers know how to pitch, you can guess what they're going to throw." Judging by statistics so far, Scott obviously has been guessing right. Last week he was the No. 3 batter in the American League (.351), led the league in homers...