Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson accomplished one miracle-he made President Lyndon B. Johnson look like a fashion plate. As newsmen crowded into Johnson's White House office they found Wilson slouched on a couch by the fireplace, pipe in hand, wearing a wrinkled dark grey suit, greyish socks, brown shoes, and a tie colored a muddy green...
Auctions are replacing theater openings as the first-nighters' delight. And to capitalize on the trend, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries last week staged a doubleheader, splitting sales of 130 modern art works with a $50-a-plate black-tie dinner. On hand were such luminaries as A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, Playwright Edward Albee, Architects Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe, Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, the Duchess of Leeds and all three Kennedy sisters. Nearly 3,000 potential buyers crammed four floors of the auction house with the spillover relegated to the limbo of nearby Finch...
...Donnell led the nine-hit Harvard attack with two singles and two RBI's in four trips to the plate. Neville and Tobin were also two-for-four. Miller, the team's captain, failed to hit in two at-bats, but he retired three men on tough foul popups and repeatedly prevented Cornell runhere from advancing by spooning Scott...
McCarthy had been holding Harvard at bay since the first inning, when the Crimson's George Neville and Joe O'Donnell had both singled. But Neville was tagged out at the plate trying to score on O'Donnell...
...plain fact is that the 13 struggling Eastern railroads can no longer survive without consolidation. Recognizing this, the ICC has already allowed the merger of the Chesapeake & Ohio with the Baltimore & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western with the Wabash and Nickel Plate. Even the bankrupt New Haven has found a partner. Two days after last week's Penn-Central finding, in accordance with the examiners' recommendation, the two roads agreed to take over the New Haven's red-ink freight business for $140 million in stock, bonds and cash. They want no part of its commuter business, which...