Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Nelson Rockefeller after his nomination, "that I was not drafted for this nomination. I worked and fought from one end of the state to the other." He had done just that. Rockefeller's intensive campaign began last June. It started with a big name and a long record of public service as philanthropist and big businessman, as State Department expert on Latin American affairs, Under Secretary of the Health, Education and Welfare Department (1953-54), and military reorganization adviser to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
...sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games off the 1927 pace of Babe Ruth when he hit his record 60 homers...
Baseball Bribe. With his light bat Banks hit 44 homers in 1955 to break the record of 39 set for shortstops in 1949 by husky Vern Stephens of the Boston Red Sox. Banks hit 28 in 1956 and 43 last year, despite a habit of swinging wildly at low outside pitches. "I'm just swinging at strikes now," says Banks. "I just try to meet the ball and get a base hit." Adds Manager Scheffing: "When he's getting his hits, he's getting his homers...
...into top form at Arlington Park near Chicago, Round Table already had won $1,215,114, with 32 wins in 47 starts. In the dollar derby, he was ahead of Calumet Farm's Citation ($1,085,760, with 32 wins in 45 starts) and just short of the record set by Belair Stud's Nashua ($1,288,565, with 22 wins in 30 starts...
This year Round Table impressed railbirds by breezing home under 130 Ibs. to win Florida's mile-and-one-quarter $100,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap. His pace for the mile-and-one-eighth en route was just two-fifths of a second off the world record of 1:46.8. In his drive to top Nashua's moneymaking, Round Table is entered in this week's $100,000 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington and this month's $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City, NJ. and the $100,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont, L.I. Possible opponent...