Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rival players taunted the dandified A's: "Hiya, beautiful." Batters quavered when Harvey burst from his hole with a shriek. The A's still finished in the ruck (ninth in 1961 and 1962, eighth in 1963), and fans stayed home in droves. Over three seasons, the Athletics averaged 694,000 fans-third-worst attendance in the league-and Owner Finley glumly totted up losses of $1,028,000-bringing his total investment to more than...
...nation's most conservative Senators in Republican John Tower. Dallas Republican Congressman Bruce Alger is well to the right of Barry Goldwater. Democrats normally dominate state politics, but they themselves are torn between "liberals" (who nonetheless supported Republican Tower instead of a Democratic nominee from the rival faction) and "conservatives" like Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, who are not conservative...
...Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, owner of the Freedom Newspaper chain (TIME, April 19), bought out the Lima, Ohio, News in 1956, his far-right editorial attacks on public schools and libraries, unions, and other Hoiles hates turned the town against him. When ex-News employees and local businessmen started the rival Lima Citizen the next year, 1,000 enthusiastic stockholders put up $360,000 capital. In three months, the new paper reached 24,060 circulation while the News slipped to 15,363. By year's end, the Citizen was ahead in advertising too. "If we can't survive with...
Twelve times this season, U.C.L.A. has walked out on the court outgrown by a couple of inches per man. And twelve straight times, Wooden's team has run away with the game. Last week U.C.L.A. took on its cross-town rival, Southern Cal, dawdled long enough to let the Trojans build up an early lead, then turned on the pressure and romped to a casual 79-59 victory. At the season's midpoint, the Bruins were the nation's No. 1 team and the year's biggest surprise...
...like the program says. The closest thing U.C.L.A. has to a legitimate All-America candidate is 6-ft. 2-in. Guard Walt Hazzard, who averages 18 points a game, thrills fans with his fancy dribbling and behind-the-back passes-but sometimes plays defense, says a rival scout, "like a spectator." No matter. So far, U.C.L.A. has knocked off such highly touted opponents as Kansas State (78-75), Michigan (98-80) and Illinois (83-79), has averaged 93 points a game and held opponents...