Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medication or the ice, but something has certainly improved Sandy's hitting. Until this season, he was known by teammates as "the rally stopper" because he was so hopeless at the plate. His lifetime average was a minuscule .083. This season his average has risen to an almost respectable .236, and his batting has either driven in or set up the winning runs in two of the last three games he pitched. More pitchers should have arthritis like that...
...will be stored in a central computer, which is telephone-linked to ten electronic analyzers stationed up to 450 miles away. Each analyzer in turn is linked to 40 TV cameras hidden behind toll booths, stop signs and traffic lights. As the 400 TV cameras monitor every passing license plate, the analyzers encode the digits and the computer compares them with the wanted list. The whole thing takes less than one second -time enough to trip an alarm back at the camera and send lurking prowl cars into action...
...speech, while lauding President Johnson, fell admirably short of Jack Valenti's fulsome performance. Next day Humphrey was off to Houston for a two-hour inspection of the Manned Spacecraft Center, then up to Oklahoma City, where he attended the Oklahoma Democratic Party's first $ 100-a-plate dinner (hamburgers and cole slaw) and delivered a ringing, one-hour sermon on the glories of the Great Society. He was back in Washington for only twelve hours before Johnson dispatched him to London as the top American in the official cortege bringing home the body of Adlai Stevenson...
...when they compared him to Ted Williams. Despite missing a number of games because of injuries, he hit .290 and belted 25 home runs. He always seemed to give that little bit of extra effort. This season he has become a sloppy ballplayer; every time he goes to the plate he tries to hit a home run, and as a consequence his average has tumbled into the 260's, and his strikeouts have soared...
...success of the flip-top cap, brewers are searching for other package improvements. Schlitz last week introduced an improved flip-top whose blunt edges are guaranteed not to slice hands, as earlier models often did. Anheuser-Busch also announced that it is shifting to aluminum cans from tin-plate, even though brewers admit privately that any kind of can is a poor container for retaining beer flavor. Because 50% of all beer is now sold in supermarkets, beer companies are designing packages that will stand out on store shelves, catch the eye of housewives who do the beer-buying...