Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permitted to share the same locker. He has used as many as seven Negro and Latin American players in a single game's lineup. Negroes and Latin Americans have displaced several established players on the Giants-Negro Jim Ray Hart for Jim Davenport at third base, Puerto Rican Jose Pagán for Ed Bressoud at shortstop, Dominican Jesus Alou for Harvey Kuenn in rightfield...
...also a bitter loser, who cannot abide-and cannot keep quiet about-bad base running, missed signals and halfway efforts. This year, with a team that might well have run away from the league, his frustrations have boiled over. He has clashed openly with several players-particularly Puerto Rican First Baseman Orlando Cepeda, who runs the bases as if he were treading molasses, and Negro Leftfielder Willie McCovey, who is hitting barely over .200 when Dark figures he should be batting...
...where a common laborer mutters to himself at a corner bar: "You don't come up to Harlem and whip my head, white man. You can whip me somewhere else. But not here, white man." It is where the Negro's next-door neighbor, the Puerto Rican, is eyed with suspicion when he ventures over from his East Harlem slum...
Lyndon Johnson, it is well known, likes dancing parties. But in Washington these sweltering days, even the two-step is hot work. Thus, after a state dinner for visiting Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich and his wife Marita, President Johnson took his guests out onto the low-lying rooftop adjoining the east wing, only a few hundred feet from the street, where they danced under Japanese lanterns that swayed in the cooling breeze...
...first round, Ralston lost to Tony Pickard, a 29-year-old Englishman who had virtually retired from competitive tennis; Ralston romped through the first two sets, then collapsed to lose in five. Froehling also fell in the first round-to Nicky Kalo-geropoulos, a 19-year-old, Costa Rican-born Greek who had just graduated from the juniors. Froehling's problem was double faults. By the semifinals, McKinley was the only American left in the tournament. He took care of that, dropping a four-set match to Australia's Fred Stolle-the same man he whipped...