Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large number on the ballots were mailed to members of the Class of 1941 in May by Francis C. Powers '41. On an enclosed card, he advised his classmates to use them "in the event that you have misplaced your original ballot." The cards addressed to Kennedy, read: "Herein is my official vote. If for any reason my vote will not be counted, please send me immediately an Official Ballot...
...placard placed over the Gemini hatches by back-up Astronauts Jim Lovell and Ed Aldrin, they read...
...constipated. What is needed is a more human and intelligent relationship between the student's training and his thesis." Many dissertations are tedious tomes, running up to a thousand pages and taking two or more years to write-and seemingly almost as long for an outsider to read...
Actually, there is one pitch that Marichal prefers not to throw: his best one, the fastball. For one thing, it is too much like work. ("Has major-league fastball," read a plaintive note in the first scouting report the Giants received on Juan's pitching, "but wants to throw curves all the time.") For another, the fastball is essentially a strikeout pitch. Sandy Koufax may get his kicks out of setting strikeout records, but Marichal would rather save his arm. "It takes at least three pitches to strike a man out," he says matter-of-factly. "It only takes...
...Juan went to Tacoma, Wash., in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. In May 1960, a San Francisco scout visited Tacoma, gave Juan a hard look and filed a report that takes its place among baseball's famous last words. "Potential major-league material," it read. "Should make the parent club in two years...