Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense, Yorty charges that the Federal Government bears a major share of the responsibility for stirring the emotions of Los Angeles Negroes to fever pitch. In a telegram that he fired off to Washington last week, Yorty declared that "one of the riot-inciting factors was the deliberate and well-publicized cutting off of poverty funds to this city," demanded that Shriver "process our programs and release our funds while we reorganize." The mayor also accused California Governor Edmund G. Brown of trying to make political hay by appointing a commission to look into the riots' causes...
...hitter who says, "I just grab a bat and look for the baseball. If it's near the plate, I swing at it." Technically, he does almost everything wrong: he stands at the very back of the batter's box (where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits off his forward foot, regularly swings at the first pitch, is a notorious bad ball hitter. "I've seen Hank hit pitches right off his ear into the rightfield grandstand," says Pittsburgh's Bob Friend. Another opposition pitcher...
...veto that they hold over legislation under the constitution. When Turkey angrily placed the matter before the U.N., Ankara's NATO partners reaffirmed their desire for peace on the island, but failed to step in energetically on Turkey's behalf. In Moscow last week, Urguplu made a pitch for stronger Soviet backing over Cyprus, but there were limits to what Premier Aleksei Kosygin could prom ise. Russia, like Turkey, is against enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece, but the Soviets are not likely to go so far as to back Turkey's desire for par tition...
Finally, Stengel summoned Spahn for a talk in his office. Just about everyone in the club house heard the angry rumble as Spahn refused to step aside as a regular pitcher and join the bullpen staff. "I feel I can still pitch," he insisted. Perhaps so. But not with the Mets. Last week the Mets put Spahn up for sale. Price: $1. So far, he has not been bowled over with offers. By week's end, in fact, there had been none, and Spahn hurried off to try his hand at broadcasting baseball...
Cheaper than Hamburger. Before he came to National, Bronx-born Gene Klein made his mark as a California used-car dealer by adopting an unusual pitch. He advertised that his cars were "cheaper per pound than hamburger," marked them variously at 440 or 660 per Ib. He bought 50,000 shares of National with his profits, wound up as president after the company ran into critical financial trouble. "There were so many fires to put out," says Klein, "that I had to make a list of priority fires." Klein sold off some unprofitable properties, clipped personnel, then went to work...