Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey morning in Buenos Aires last week a milling throng of 3,000 massed in front of the River Plate Club. Shuffling and shivering in the cold of the South American winter, they waited neither for soccer nor for revolution, but for a court of law to convene. No ordinary courtroom could have held all the clamoring creditors of Alberto Abraham Natin, 55, a dapper, moonfaced real-estate wheeler-dealer who was charged with fraud and faced with bankruptcy. Before the crowd, seated at a stand draped in dark red felt, was a stern-faced federal judge. After months...
...including a corps of red- white-and blue-costumed high school cuties who billed themselves as "Ladies for Lyndon." At the Minneapolis Sheraton-Ritz Hotel, more than 100 Democrats paid $1,000 each for a presidential cocktail party. Later Lyndon spoke to some 2,000 at a $100-a-plate dinner in the Minneapolis auditorium...
...other hand, the Red Sox' performance at the plate has been more than enough to keep the home town fans' interest alive. There is hardly a weak link in the entire batting order. Old pro Frank Malzone (.200) is turning in his usual fine performance; shortstop Eddie Bressoud (.305) and catchers Russ Nixon (.328) and Bob Tillman (.303) are having the finest years of their careers. Dick "Stonefingers" Stuart is belting the hide off the ball as usual (14 homers and 47 RBI's). Carl Yastrzemski, last year's American League batting champion, is having an off year, but will...
...Northern Dancer: Canada's Queen's Plate 1¼-mile classic, in a strong comeback after losing the U.S. Triple Crown in the 1½-mile Belmont Stakes; in Toronto. E. P. Taylor's bay colt went off a l-to-9 favorite at the shorter distance, breezed home 7½ lengths in front, thus adding another $49,075 purse to bring his two-year earnings...
...next morning, the corporation assembles in its paneled Woodbridge Hall meeting room, sitting around a mahogany table in high-backed leather chairs, each bearing an engraved plate with the name of the occupant. No one smokes until university officers and corporation committees present their reports. Then a faint cloud of blue begins to fill the air, while the group politely strives to reach their decisions...